T-Engine Enables Ubiquitous Computing

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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wtf mate?

[inkdesign]

"With any luck your 2007 Toyota Camry and your Mitsubishi food processor will be exchanging recipes in the not too distant future."

I'd prefer my car stick to driving, thank you.

Embedded Development

[putko]

Standards Conformance usually gets cut when doing embedded development if conformance ruins the cost of components or power the device requires.

I don't think they will be able to get everyone to hew to the party line; there will be too many economic reasons to deviate.

Otherwise, sounds neat.

iTron

[Yjam]

"TRON, ITRON, and ITRON do not refer to any specific product or products."

This is from the official TRON website.
So now... how are they going to sell something based on nothing.

I too can build and sell the top-notch-most-powerfull stuff ever built.. and I won't be selling it cheap.. oh, of course this would only be theory-reselling.

I've seen nowhere in TFA that this techno is actually going to be used. Bu anyway, if it's gonna be.. maybe we should all beware of the Attach of the Killer Tomatoes which will seek revenge because the fridge just said they were out of date ^^

Re:iTron

[torpor]

So now... how are they going to sell something based on nothing.


what i think you need to do is recognize the difference between the word 'initiative' and 'implementation'.

lets take this to another context: Free/Open Source Software.

F/OSS is an initiative. Linux is an implementation.

Get the point? iTron is an initiative which has borne much, much fruit. Look around you, find a "Made in Asia" component which contains a computing system. Therein, you will spy aspects of the iTron initiative, underneath the radar ..

Same old Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

You can always tell it's a Slashdot "discussion" because so many of the people making comments are making no effort to actually contribute to it.

Anyway, the point of the technology at issue here is that a computer is not designed to allow people to work together but networks are, and that a computer can never be as versatile and useful as a universally accessible network with many kinds of resources (including countless computers) can. It's not a tough concept to get your head around, once you get your heads out of your asses.

Re:Nobody cares about TRON outside of Japan

[argent]

It's this weird, baroque API that's non-POSIX and not standard C library compatible.

That's not necessarily bad. Particularly in embedded systems, where most of the resources POSIX and stdio manage (files, virtual address spaces, etc) don't exist. Real-time programming deals with an environment more like the internals of the UNIX kernel than userspace, which is why things like microkernels are so attractive even if they don't directly make implementing a POSIX environment any easier... what they do is create an API that works for embedded systems AND general purpose computers.

That's also why Mach is such a dismal failure as a microkernel. It assumes it's got the same kind of resources as a complete POSIX system, like virtual memory.