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> Japanese Government said this week that it was willing to give away the software developed by the project to anyone who wanted it, even foreigners. Was wond
by rdtsc 10y ago
> Japanese Government said this week that it was willing to give away the software developed by the project to anyone who wanted it, even foreigners.
Was wondering what they released as a result. Surely after a $400 in 80's money they had some lines of code written.
Apparently they focused on concurrent logic programming and wasted a lot of money on exotic hardware in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer by the time they were done off-the-shelf CPUs could run circles around the fancy workstations.