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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Forced to use TRON
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Date: 26 Aug 89 00:50:47 GMT
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>From the Monday August 7 issue of Electronic News
>
>NTT: Suppliers Must Use Tron Operating System
>By Boyd Harnell
>
>Tokyo - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) last week said that
>its ISDN and digital switching network suppliers will be required to use 
>the Japanese-developed Tron operating system - a move opposed by U.S. Trade
>Representative Carla Hills as a potential trade barrier against American
>equipment.

Note that this specifies only the TRON operating system, which can run on
any microprocessor.  I visited with Dr. Sakamura two weeks ago, and he
showed me TRON software running on a 386.  TRON OS and TRON chips are
largely unrelated.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report    mslater@cup.portal.com