would like to expand Kyle's post a bit.
most Japanese electronic and communication devices use TRON.
http://tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TRON/
http://www.tron.org/
http://www.semicon.panasonic.co.jp/micom/ros/
http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html
TRON is a series of OS specifications (ITRON, CTRON, BTRON, etc.).
the project started in 1984 by Ken Sakamura, a University of Tokyo
professor who claims TRON will replace the von Neumann architecture,
UNIX and Windows operating systems to dominate the world.
Mr. Sakamura isn't smart at technology, but he is a genius with
politics. Japan has always the need to have a standard RTOS for
its electronics industry, which should not be a commercial product
of a foreign company. NTT mandates CTRON the OS on devices it buys.
some foreign engineers took part in the development of TRON, namely
those from Nortel and Tandem. TRON might not be the worst OS in
the world but it has been costing companies dearly in term of low
efficiency (even in Japanese standard).
Sakamura still has power because a generation of engineers and
the industry itself have been living with and knowing TRON only.
also, the next candidate, RT Linux (MontaVista, etc.), is still
too fat for the limited resource devices.
one company that is taking the advantage is ACCESS.
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Received on Wed Jul 7 09:32:52 2004