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"Tron" is just a sound generically associated with futuristic high tech, most likely originally because of the word "electron". From OED: "tron" is "used in th
by umanwizard 9y ago
"Tron" is just a sound generically associated with futuristic high tech, most likely originally because of the word "electron".
From OED: "tron" is "used in the names of devices and machines, spec. particle accelerators, as cyclotron (1935), betatron (1941), phantastron (1943), levitron (1960)."
- dorfsmay 9y agoBut in the cases of the movies, wasn't it form Trace-ON/Trace-OFF in some programing environments?
- manicdee 9y agoIt is also the name of the BASIC command “tron”, reflecting the role of the program created by Alan Bradley, specifically to trace the MCP and find weaknesses (which are later exploited to delete the MPC and release the evidence of Dillinger’s fraud).
- tyingq 9y agoAlso klystron (1937) and magnetron (1910).