The US government intervened in Japan's attempt to develop a global operating system in the 1980s by citing it as an unfair trade barrier.

Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/ <- a great look at an amazing family of OSes very little known in the West.

🇯🇵 Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened ｢ an operating system designed at the University of Tokyo in 1984 was ambitious enough to try to replace the file system with a hypermedia document model, run on a custom Japanese CPU architecture, and encode 1.5 million characters, only to have a US trade report single it out as an unfair trade barrier in 1989 ｣ https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/ #japan #osdev #retrocomputing #tradewar