Japan’s Tron Association, set up to promote the Tron chip architecture and The Real-time Operating system Nucleus, is not ready to give up on its baby yet, and is to set up an office in the US in an attempt to broaden the base of interest in Tron. Jim Farrell, previously an editor of the American Electronics Association magazine, is to be the representative of the organisation. Of the 143 companies that are members of the Tron Association, only five are American, but paradoxically, suggestions by the US government that Tron was intended as an invisible trade barrier has only excited more interest in the environment in the US.
