The B-right/V R2 Operating System

The BTRON operating system, conceived by Japan's TRON Project in the mid-1980s, represents a third conceptual computing model—the "network interface computer"—which differs from traditional personal computers by requiring minimal hardware resources and operating costs while serving as an interface to an interconnected network of devices. Unlike the U.S.-based "network computer" model that relies on company-owned servers, BTRON was designed as a real-time human-machine interface for a "hypernetwork" where all computers and computerized devices throughout society would be interconnected.