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T-Engine Enables Ubiquitous Computing

Posted by timothy on from the does-not-stand-for-turbo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Japanese-government sponsored research consortium that include five chip makers and 17 other Japanese high-tech firms, has announced that the T-Engine, a ubiquitous computing platform is ready for prime time. The engine is featured in a IEEE Computer Society article (PDF) and discussed more on Windley's Technometria. The system is based on the iTron real-time OS and includes multiple boards for different applications."

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  1. Nobody cares about TRON outside of Japan by heli_flyer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used to work at Hitachi America so I know about TRON/iTRON/microITRON/etc. It's this weird, baroque API that's non-POSIX and not standard C library compatible. Kind of like an extreme example of Not-Invented-Here syndrome. For some reason Hitachi Japan thought everyone wanted it without realizing that nobody outside Japan cared about it. We kinda tried to humor them..."sure, we will distribute microITRON if customers ask for it".