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What's Tron and why should I care about them? :)

• ifdefdebug 6y ago
  a brilliant sf movie from the early 80s, should definitively watch it :)
  • WorldMaker 6y ago
    There's also an amazing full length Daft Punk music video that sometimes is considered a sequel to the 80s film, but you'll likely want to watch the spin-off cartoon for a lot of the necessary plot. In the plot of the cartoon the titular character (program) Tron is assumed dead, and then corrupted by a corrupt system. I can only assume this is why his name is being bad mouthed by some sort of crypto-currency scheme, as Tron was a good program, a security program built to defend the users and would never stand silent on for-profit exploitation of users.
• freemint 6y ago
  The TRON Project is also a 1980-1990s project in Japan to develop IoT infrastructure. They even made their own CPUs and developed 3 different flavours of Operating Systems: - an embedded real-time kernel ITRON - an soft real time single user desktop OS called BTRON - CTRON a server operating systems with real time guarantees for packet/phone line switching In addition they also developed an true international character encoding before Unicode. It wasn't ASCII backwards compatible which is why it wasn't picked by Unicode committee. A good resource to learn about it is here: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html