TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.
  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    16 hours ago

    In fact, this LinuxInsider article from 2003 calls ITRON “the most popular operating system in the world,” and while nobody has published hard numbers since, the Yomiuri series reported that TRON-based operating systems still run in roughly 60% of the world’s embedded devices.

    I wouldn’t exactly call that a “screeching halt”.

    Thanks for the article, though, that was an interesting read!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      13 hours ago

      It was a fascinating dive, and the idea of making a document oriented OS rather than application oriented one would’ve been so much better. The most frustrating part about modern computing is that data is tied to specific apps. But if things were designed around data from the ground up, we could’ve had far better file standards. Business logic could’ve been decoupled from presentation as well, and you could create interfaces on the fly to represent a specific workflow you want. Basically a similar idea to the way shell scripting works but for the desktop.