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More Japanese excesses from the '80s: the Tron computing project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
by imglorp 4mo ago
More Japanese excesses from the '80s: the Tron computing project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
- AreShoesFeet000 4mo ago> According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, in 1989 US officials feared that TRON could undercut American dominance in computers, but that in the end PC software and chips based on the TRON technology proved no match for Windows and Intel's processors as a global standard. “Excess” implies irrationality, but I wonder how could something irrational be a threat to ‘American dominance in computers’?