TRON Smart House

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A video tour of the TRON Intelligent House, a Tokyo smart-home demonstration built in 1989 as part of Japan's TRON project. It shows a house in which many networked computers handle everyday functions.

HN people share it as a more informative window into the TRON project than written articles, proving it was a whole integrated system.

“There was a whole TRON house tech demo built in Tokyo back in 1989”
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@rwmj2023 · in “The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)”
A video about the intelligent house: ▶ this video Edit: Sorry, it seems this was already posted. Still, the video is more informative than this article.
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@rbanffy2022 · in “TRON Smart House”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@albertzak2021 · in “TRON Smart House (1989/2010)”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@haunter2026 · in “Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened”
TRON wasn’t just an OS but a whole integrated system, it was meant to be used with different parts working together. There was a whole TRON house tech demo built in Tokyo back in 1989 ▶ this video If you want to try here is the BTRON 4.5 media, should work in modern VMs link link link
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@haunter2026 · in “TRON Project”
Example house ▶ this video
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@Findecanor2023 · in “The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)”
The TRON smart house: ▶ this video Demonstration of BTRON: link
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@kkfx2022 · in “Unity Systems Home Manager Support”
IBM have invented touchscreens with a dedicated pen (I ignore the name) around late '60s, decades ago we have seen ▶ this video the point? Well, it's simple: 99% of today high tech came from PUBLIC or at least publicly founded research from after WWII to first '80s ALL THE REST is just popularisation, ingenerisation and added crap to ensure some private party profits carefully designed not to give any power to users. It's about time we came back to a public research for public progress...
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