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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tron  \Tron\,  n. 
  See  3d  {Trone},  2.  [Obs.  or  Scott.] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  tron  v.  [NRL,  CMU;  prob.  fr  the  movie  "Tron"]  To  become 
  inaccessible  except  via  email  or  `talk(1)',  especially  when  one  is 
  normally  available  via  telephone  or  in  person.  Frequently  used  in  the 
  past  tense,  as  in:  "Ran  seems  to  have  tronned  on  us  this  week"  or  "Gee, 
  Ran,  glad  you  were  able  to  un-tron  yourself".  One  may  also  speak  of 
  `tron  mode';  compare  {spod}. 
 
  Note  that  many  dialects  of  BASIC  have  a  TRON/TROFF  command  pair 
  that  enables/disables  line  number  tracing;  this  has  no  obvious 
  relationship  to  the  slang  usage. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  TRON 
 
    A  project  headed  by  Dr  Ken  Sakamura  of  the 
  {University  of  Tokyo}  and  supported  by  most  of  the  major 
  Japanese  computer  makers  and  {NTT}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1995-03-15) 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  tron 
 
    ({NRL},  {CMU},  probably  from  the  film  "Tron")  To 
  become  inaccessible  except  via  {electronic  mail}  or  {talk} 
  especially  when  one  is  normally  available  via  telephone  or  in 
  person. 
 
  Compare  {spod}. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1994-11-03) 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  TRON 
  The  Realtime  Operating  system  Nucleus




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