10 Nov
2003
10 Nov
'03
11:43 a.m.
Eric is right for sure on this:
See http://www.tron-sector.com/articles/article.aspx?ID=30 for more info on
the making of TRON and see http://vhost2.zfx.com/~dave/f1.html for more info
on the Foonly F1 Computer.
Lyle
On Monday 10 November 2003 16:28, Eric Smith wrote:
Jason McBrien wrote:
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94040
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Anyone know what TRON was rendered on? I know it
was Cray hardware,
You know wrong. The main system used was a Foonly F-1, a PDP-10 clone.
Some other hardware was also used, but not a Cray.
The title of the film comes from the TRON instruction of the PDP-10,
one of the 64 logical test and modify instructions. The TRON
mnemonic means _Test accumulator _Right half immediate, set selected
bits to _One, and skip unless all selected bits are zero (the skip
phrase being coded as "N" in the mnemonic):
http://pdp10.nocrew.org/docs/instruction-set/Logical-Tests.html
It has nothing to do with the "trace on" command in Microsoft BASIC,
and the PDP-10 does not have a "TROFF" instruction.