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TRON (The command and the movie)
Although most of you figured it out, I received some questions regarding last week’s crossword puzzle, specifically 1-Down, “Slang for ‘Trace On.'”
I suppose I could have reworded it slightly. Perhaps “In the days of BASIC, computer-speak for ‘Trace On'” would have been better, however you’ll notice that the sub-title of the crossword was “e-commerce, a return to networking, and one movie.” To me, that was a giveaway. Did you wonder what the movie was? It was the slang term for “Trace On,” or TRON.
You may remember I made a post recently about an on-line BASIC interpreter, BASIC being an early computer-programming language, and that is the kind of BASIC we are talking about – the kind where each line is preceded by a line number. Here is an example of what it looks like:
