yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp (Toshihiko YAMAKAMI) (02/10/90)
From article <76700123@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, by gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu: >> Since no one else has mentioned it... what about TRON? > TRON was the only response I received via email that fit the > requirements (a genuinely new CISC instruction set, not an enhancement > to some old product). How long ago was TRON conceived? I'm guessing > it may have been 5 years ago, but I'm not sure. I don't know the official birthday of TRON. However, I knew the word 'TRON' at least in 1982, when I was a undergraduate student of University of Tokyo. Maybe the word(and the concept) was coined by Dr. Sakamura in 1982, or so. -- Toshihiko YAMAKAMI Toshihiko YAMAKAMI NTT Telecommunication Networks Laboratories Telephone: +81-468-59-3781 FAX: +81-468-59-2546 junet: yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp CSNET: yam%nttmhs.ntt.jp@relay.cs.net snail-mail: Take 1-2356-523A, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 238-03 JAPAN