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From: yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp (Toshihiko YAMAKAMI)
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Subject: TRON's birthday(Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 10 Feb 90 00:04:40 GMT
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From article <76700123@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, by gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu:

>> Since no one else has mentioned it... what about TRON?

> TRON was the only response I received via email that fit the
> requirements (a genuinely new CISC instruction set, not an enhancement
> to some old product).  How long ago was TRON conceived?  I'm  guessing
> it may have been 5 years ago, but I'm not sure.

I don't know the official birthday of TRON.
However, I knew the word 'TRON' at least in 1982, when I was
a undergraduate student of University of Tokyo.
Maybe the word(and the concept) was coined by Dr. Sakamura in 1982, or so.

-- Toshihiko YAMAKAMI



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