Story on announcement, made at Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco 2003, history and information on TRON, ITRON; Mentor Graphics, Accelerated Technology. [EDACafe]

Announcement disproving rumors that project is dead, 3 forum comments. [OSNews.com]

A small (12-64k), standards-based, low cost, no royalty, commercial realtime OS; POSIX, ITRON/uITRON programming interfaces, GNU compiler support, source code provided; supports CPUs: Altera Nios, ARM, Hitachi SuperH. Free downloads: KROS demos, documentation, updates. By Shugyo Design Technologies, Inc.

Develops and markets packaged software; imports, localizes overseas software, edits and publishes books on computers and general topics. A current focus is commercializing TRON Project results. English page of mostly Japanese site.

What is Earth's most widely used OS? Not Linux, Unix, or Windows, but ITRON, Japanese realtime kernel for small-scale embedded systems. It runs mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players, many other devices. [LinuxInsider]

T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software are joining the long-dominant Japanese embedded OS, TRON, with embedded Linux, to form a standard software architecture for embedded devices benefiting from open source and Linux. Forum with comments. [Slashdot]

Promotes standards creation and adoption, offers conformance testing services, does related studies, publicizes and promotes TRON. Confident that their efforts will contribute significantly to creation of a new computer order and emergence of a mature information society. Hope to advance industries and economies of nations throughout the world.

Membership open to all corporate bodies and organizations that share Association objectives. At Accelerated Technology, embedded systems division of Mentor Graphics Corp.

The Real-time Operating system Nucleus is an open RTOS specification; versions: BTRON, CTRON, ITRON, JTRON. Developed in Japan, where some 1/4 of new embedded systems use an ITRON type OS. [University of Tokyo, Japan]

Official overseas news source; all the information needed to learn about and keep up on developments in this popular, general-purpose computer architecture designed to connect the wide array of computer systems used in society today, and new types to come into use in the next century.

News, information, schedules, what's new, some small but interesting readings, many links. Mostly Japanese, several useful, interesting pages in English.