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From: lupine!rfg@uunet.UU.NET (Ron Guilmette)
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Subject: Re: Kahaner Report on Japanese Computing: TRON
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In article <13062@darkstar.ucsc.edu> David K. Kahaner ONR Asia [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp] writes:
+...  Nevertheless, 
+there are many excellent ideas coming from the TRON community. Fueled by 
+the Japanese ability in chip and other hardware design and manufacture 
+members of this group have been aggressive and successful in building 
+experimental systems. Western scientists are not going to be able to 
+assess these unless they are more active participants in the project.  
+Western standards organizations as well as research scientists should 
+start paying serious attention to TRON specifications now, realizing that 
+sooner than we anticipate, one of the Japanese giant electric firms may 
+adopt TRON specifications.  One way to begin would be to have serious US 
+attendance at the 1991 TRON Symposium, which will be held on 26-27 
+November, 1991 in Tokyo. For more details contact Sakamura at the address 
+given above.  


Shouldn't there be some sort of a disclaimer on this such as "The foregoing
has been a paid political announcement"?
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