On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:15, Wesley Parish wrote: > Quoting Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:15, you wrote: > > > Lat night I mentioned in passing the operating system TRON (not to be > > > confused with the movie, Tron). About 2.6 billion systems are shipped > > > with TRON installed each year: > > > http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci030522.html > > > That makes TRON the OS with the largest user-base by quite a margin > > > > > :) > > > > Um, I read recently that TRON was (or will be) crushed mercilessly by > > M$, > > in an "embrace and extend" kind of way: > > > > http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/2003/09/microsoft_in_tron_tie > >up.html > > > > http://today.java.net/pub/n/MS_Tron > > > > http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/msvshistfact.html > > > > Andy > > There's actually a F/LOSS version of TRON floating around - I've downloaded > the files but never got around to compiling them. If I remember correctly > it's hosted or referred to at sourceforge.net. TRON is more of a > specification, a standard than an Operating System in its own right. In > that it resembles Unix.
Well, I've had no luck digging up the B-FREE TRON source code on the Net, and I appear to have lost it off my hard drive somewhen. But, goto: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/toppers-jsp.html and you'll find a similar TRON project, distributed under what appears to be a GPL variant license. Enjoy! Wesley Parish > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
