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BTRON is an operating system architecture designed in the TRON project. BTRON specification aims at establishing operating systems for workstations in 1990’s. BTRON workstations will offer ease of use and learning, efficient operation for experienced users, support for many languages of the world including the support for many character sets, data interchange across different BTRON machines, consistent data model, uniform man-machine interface, and a set of functions which will make it easy for application developers to build programs that use similar man-machine interface.

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Sakamura, K. (1987). BTRON: An Overview. In: Sakamura, K. (eds) TRON Project 1987 Open-Architecture Computer Systems. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68069-7_7

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