Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened (www.xda-developers.com)

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[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In fact, this LinuxInsider article from 2003 calls ITRON "the most popular operating system in the world," and while nobody has published hard numbers since, the Yomiuri series reported that TRON-based operating systems still run in roughly 60% of the world's embedded devices.

I wouldn't exactly call that a "screeching halt".

Thanks for the article, though, that was an interesting read!