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NetBSD 11.0 adds 64-bit RISC-V support, improved Linux compatibility, and a MICROVM kernel booting in about 10 milliseconds on 2020-era processors. The release also includes preliminary Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support and better Xen and QEMU operation.
Japan's TRON project, launched at the University of Tokyo in 1984, built a hypermedia OS with custom CPU and 1.5 million character encoding. A 1989 US trade report named BTRON an unfair trade barrier, killing its desktop push. Embedded ITRON became widely deployed.
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