TRON: the OS that refuses to die

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese TRON, the zombie OS...Via Slashdot.org

TRON + Linux = "T-Linux"
The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software announced today that they are collaborating to combine the long-dominant Japanese embedded operating system, TRON ("The Real-time Operating system Nucleus"), with embedded Linux, in the hopes of creating a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of Linux.

[GomiGirl]

Tron is an awesome OS esepcially for small devices (read mobile).

The history of it is really interesting as well.

Tron Website Most of the pages are in Japanese but on the English pages there is mention of a North American Liason

n the TRON Project, as a compilation of embedded system and security system research of close to 20 years, last year we launched the T-Engine project to construct a development platform for ubiquitous computing environments, and in June of this year we established the "T-Engine Forum" as an organization for promoting it. Thanks to everyone involved, the T-Engine Forum was inaugurated by initially obtaining the cooperation of 22 companies. We are obtaining the cooperation of many other companies with such vigor that the member companies will approach close to 100 firms by the end of fiscal year 2002. This is not just domestic firms; European and American firms are also expressing a desire to participate.

T-Engine is an open development platform for embedded system development. With freedom to use whatever CPU, it aims at the making the distribution of various types middleware perfect on the basis of control by T-Kernel and T-Monitor. Furthermore, as new information infrastructure for the age of "Computing Everywhere," it is loaded with the "eTRON" architecture that possesses very strong security, which makes it possible to safely transfer information and privileges even across information communication routes with weak security, such as the Internet.