malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) (08/24/89)
From the Monday August 7 issue of Electronic News NTT: Suppliers Must Use Tron Operating System By Boyd Harnell Tokyo - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) last week said that its ISDN and digital switching network suppliers will be required to use the Japanese-developed Tron operating system - a move opposed by U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills as a potential trade barrier against American equipment. Ms. Hills' agency, in a report to Congress last May on major trade barriers, had said any Japanese attempt to make the Tron operating system mandatory in procurements would bar U.S. firms in the market. The report said Japanese telecommunications firms had a long lead in developing equipment using the Tron software to be ready for mandatory Tron requirements. In what was perceived to be an attempt to show the Tron requirement does not discriminate against foreign suppliers, NTT officials described Tron as an open architecture system that allows for all equipment firms to interface their products into the new ISDN and digital networks. As evidence they said a foreign firm, Northern Telecom, is participating in the NTT joint development program of equipment using the new Tron operating system. Others are Fujitsu, Hitachi, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, NEC, Oki and Toshiba. [The article continues with a description of NTT ISDN switches and some other similar stuff.]
mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) (08/26/89)
>From the Monday August 7 issue of Electronic News > >NTT: Suppliers Must Use Tron Operating System >By Boyd Harnell > >Tokyo - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) last week said that >its ISDN and digital switching network suppliers will be required to use >the Japanese-developed Tron operating system - a move opposed by U.S. Trade >Representative Carla Hills as a potential trade barrier against American >equipment. Note that this specifies only the TRON operating system, which can run on any microprocessor. I visited with Dr. Sakamura two weeks ago, and he showed me TRON software running on a 386. TRON OS and TRON chips are largely unrelated. Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report mslater@cup.portal.com
pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek) (08/28/89)
In article <34263@apple.Apple.COM> malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) writes: >From the Monday August 7 issue of Electronic News >NTT: Suppliers Must Use Tron Operating System >[Trade barrier discussion deleted] What's so different about this ? The U.S. Government, in its procurement of computer systems, often specifies that UNIX (which, unlike TRON, requires licensing) or particular IBM-subsystem (which is proprietary) software must be provided. Who's establishing trade barriers ?!? M. A. Pasek Switching Software Development NCR Comten, Inc. (612) 638-7668 CNG Development 2700 N. Snelling Ave. pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM Roseville, MN 55113