B-right/V R2: A 1999 Japanese OS with 1.5 million character support
The B-right/V R2 Operating System
The B-right/V R2 operating system, released in Japan in 1999, implements the TRON Multilingual Environment with 31 character planes, enabling support for up to 1,500,400 characters. It runs on minimal hardware: an Intel 486DX, 16 MB RAM, and a few hundred MB of disk space. The OS includes word processor, graphics, spreadsheet, and other applications, and allows users to employ approximately 130,000 characters in documents.
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