TRON

All operating systems (OSs) in this category support TRON standards fully or partly. TRON is an acronym for: The Real-time Operating system Nucleus. The TRON Project officially began June 1984, due to findings and recommendations in a report by a Japan Electronic Industrial Development Association technical committee that investigated microprocessor uses in the 1990s and later. Dr. Ken Sakamura, University of Tokyo, chaired this committee, managed TRON development, and is the main creator of the TRON architecture.Much like POSIX, TRON is not a body of computer code that is compiled and run on a processor. Rather, it is a set of standards: interfaces, design guidelines, software design specifications, for creating the computer code that will become an OS kernel, and defining language interfaces between an OS and its programs, to give compatibility when moving programs between compatible systems.Much like Open Source software, all TRON standards are copyrighted (by the TRON Association), but available for use by software and hardware developers anywhere in the world for free. Thus the computer architecture based on it, the TRON Architecture, is an open architecture that invites and welcomes cloning and interoperability.Unlike other modern kernels developed to date, TRON was proposed and designed via a top-down approach to serve as a common software core for all the varied types of computer systems used throughout human society and human living spaces. Since one real-time kernel cannot run across everything from an 8-bit one-chip microcontroller to a mainframe computer central processing unit, there are many versions of the TRON software core that have been defined to meet the needs of varied systems. Together, all variants, which are all compatible with each other, form the basis for the world's first "total computer architecture." It was also designed to meet the needs of high-speed networking, to form the basis of a highly efficient realtime network architecture.

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TRON.org - News, information, schedules, what's new, some small but interesting readings, many links. Mostly Japanese, several useful, interesting pages in English.
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TRON Web - Official overseas news source; all the information needed to learn about and keep up on developments in this popular, general-purpose computer architecture designed to connect the wide array of computer systems used in society today, and new types to come into use in the next century.
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TRON Project Information - The Real-time Operating system Nucleus is an open RTOS specification; versions: BTRON, CTRON, ITRON, JTRON. Developed in Japan, where some 1/4 of new embedded systems use an ITRON type OS. [University of Tokyo, Japan]
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Personal Media Corp. - Develops and markets packaged software; imports, localizes overseas software, edits and publishes books on computers and general topics. A current focus is commercializing TRON Project results. English page of mostly Japanese site.
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TRON + Linux = T-Linux - T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software are joining the long-dominant Japanese embedded OS, TRON, with embedded Linux, to form a standard software architecture for embedded devices benefiting from open source and Linux. Forum with comments. [Slashdot]
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B-Free Project - OS implementing BTRON specification, preemptive multitasking, microkernel, and 32-bits. BTRON is TRON subset. Most content Japanese, Manifesto and Download in English. [Free]
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B-Free 0.0.20 Released - Announcement disproving rumors that project is dead, 3 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
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TRON Association: North American Liaison Office - Membership open to all corporate bodies and organizations that share Association objectives. At Accelerated Technology, embedded systems division of Mentor Graphics Corp.
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Accelerated Technology Appointed Official North American Liaison Office of the TRON Association - Story on announcement, made at Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco 2003, history and information on TRON, ITRON; Mentor Graphics, Accelerated Technology. [EDACafe]
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The Most Popular Operating System in the World - What is Earth's most widely used OS? Not Linux, Unix, or Windows, but ITRON, Japanese realtime kernel for small-scale embedded systems. It runs mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players, many other devices. [LinuxInsider]
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TRON Association - Promotes standards creation and adoption, offers conformance testing services, does related studies, publicizes and promotes TRON. Confident that their efforts will contribute significantly to creation of a new computer order and emergence of a mature information society. Hope to advance industries and economies of nations throughout the world.
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