TRON: The Unknown Open-Source?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @03:34AM from the ordinary-life dept.

jordandeamattson writes "Over on CNN there is a very interesting article about Tron, an open-source real-time operating system from Japan first developed and distributed in the early 1980s. The claim is that it is more widely distributed than Windows (in some 3 billion devices world-wide), that the developer (Ken Sakamura, a University professor) would be worth mucho if he had just charged for it, and that Microsoft/U.S. goverment used trade rules (Super 301) to block it adoption by schools in Japan. Check it out for an interesting read and a 'what might have been ...'" (Here's a previous mention of Tron from March about MontaVista's work to combine it with Linux.)

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Obvious question... by jdreed1024 · 2003-07-16 03:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

Where's the light-cycle racing program?

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Well done geniouses by Bijin+Ahandi+(Score4 · 2003-07-16 04:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

Now where is the URL of the homepage of this 3 billion users OS?

It doesn't have?

Is it only "for those who know"?