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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Kahaner Report on Japanese Computing: TRON
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Date: 11 Mar 91 15:41:12 GMT
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In article <13252@darkstar.ucsc.edu> weiser@parc.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) writes:
>The members of japanese industrial labs with whom I have spoken indicated
>to me that Tron was nothing to worry about, it was not going anywhere,

I just got back from 4 weeks in Japan and the general impression I got
substantiates that.  TRON is as dead as a doornail.  Even deader than
the ICOT Fifth Generation Project which was going to revolutionize
computing.  If you want an operating system that is full of vitality and
has a great future, use OS/2.

Andy Tanenbaum