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Text processor looks simple - just a window for text input, but it is actually a proper word processor, with formatting and such hidden behind the right mouse button click.

Drawing application has an external movable window with a tool palette. It seems to be vector editor, but the OS supports common image formats (GIF, JPEG and probably more).

There's some sort of email client, but email session is a "document". There's a web browser (I'll show it to you soon), and a spreadsheet tool with yet another multi-window interface. Note how trying to copy something from a spreadsheet asks for the clipboard format - plain text, CSV, image or "precise".

There is also some sort of cardfile application, and there seems to be an ability to create SCRIPTs, but it will be impossible to figure out without reading the documentation, so maybe some other time.

Text editor and vector graphics editor
Spreadsheet application that asks for the clipboard format (image, table, text, CSV or precise). There's email app in the background
Cardfile app showing empty fields
6 February at 15:15 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Umur Gedik replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina oh it uses maru instead of checkmark for confirmation. makes sense

6 February at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Nina Kalinina replied to Nina

Setting up the Internet requires two things. First, invoking "System settings" applet and adding your network card there. There is a wide list of supported cards, from ISA and PCI to PCMCIA. Then, there is a separate applet called "Network settings" that is used just for IPv4 settings - set up your IP and DNS there. It doesn't seem to support DHCP.

After that, you need to create a "Browser document" that will allow you to access some of the web over HTTP. The default site is chokanji's home page.

The browser is quite basic, with GIF/JPEG and some table support, but generally it feels close to Links than to even Internet Explorer. Google works, but HTTPS sites won't. It IS pretty cute.

Setting up the Internet requires two things. First, invoking "System settings" applet and adding your network card there. There is a wide list of supported cards, from ISA and PCI to PCMCIA. Then, there is a separate applet called "Network settings" that is used just for IPv4 settings - set up your IP and DNS there. It doesn't seem to support DHCP.

NE2000 network card settings
Homepage chokanji displayed in the browser
FrogFind in the browser
Google search in the browser. URL window has been moved to the bottom of the screen.
6 February at 15:20 | Open on tech.lgbt
Nina Kalinina replied to Nina

And that's basically it. This is all B-right/V Business TRON OS implementation has to offer. To shutdown your computer, RMB click main "Chokanji" window and choose "Close". It will create a pop-up "Do you want to finish?", and after that the only things left will be KITTENS and a dialogue window "Chokanji has been shut down. Reboot. Finish". Kittens will follow your mouse, but they always stop at pop-up window boundaries, it seem. That leaves them helpless against surprise belly rubs, highly recommend.

After you press "Finish", the screen will show white text on the black screen: "Please turn off the power switch".

It's time to make some green tea and reflect on all the incredible software that we use daily and don't notice. Don't get me wrong, there is massive difference between desktop B-TRON, embedded I-TRON, and Nucleus on phones and cameras... But it is more ubiquitous than JAVA, and yet almost no one knows about it.

*sip*

And that's basically it. This is all B-right/V Business TRON OS implementation has to offer. To shutdown your computer, RMB click main "Chokanji" window and choose "Close". It will create a pop-up "Do you want to finish?", and after that the only things left will be KITTENS and a dialogue window "Chokanji has been shut down. Reboot. Finish". Kittens will follow your mouse, but they always stop at pop-up window boundaries, it seem. That leaves them helpless against surprise belly rubs, highly recommend.

"Chokanji session is over. Reboot. Finish" window, surrounded by 8 cute computer kittens
"Please turn off the power switch" message
6 February at 15:27 | Open on tech.lgbt
Wolf480pl replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina hmm if this system is so ubiquitous, we need to ask the important question:

does TRON fight for the Users?

6 February at 19:29 | Open on mstdn.io
Rafael replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina
Wow! What a gorgeous UI! I had heard of TRON but only as the OS for cellphones and microwaves. 😅

Thank you so much for this great overview!

6 February at 15:28 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Felipe Kinoshita replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina have you tried pasting the selected drawing into the text editor? there's some pretty strange embedding things on the system!

6 February at 20:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Nina Kalinina replied to Felipe

@fkinoshita I haven't, but I imagine it will work similarly to OLE in Windows 3.1, where an app will be embedded inside of an app!

6 February at 20:18 | Open on tech.lgbt
Felipe Kinoshita replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina Yes, you can even embedded the webpages and it preserves all links inside it!

6 February at 20:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Andrew Warkentin replied to Nina

@nina_kali_nina @fkinoshita It's kind of similar, but unlike OLE, every file is also a directory and actually contains all the documents linked into it more or less. It's similar to how hard links work on Unix, although the name is associated with the inode equivalent (the real object), not the directory entry equivalent (virtual object a.k.a. link record)

7 February at 1:28 | Open on social.restless.systems
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