The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tron \Tron\, n.
See 3d Trone, 2. [Obs. or Scot.]
[1913 Webster]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
TRON
The Realtime Operating system Nucleus
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
TRON
1. The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus.
2. (TRace ON) A
command used when debugging programs written in
early line-numbered BASIC that contained GOTO and
GOSUB statements.
When the TRON command had been executed, the program ran
with a window open indicating the line number being
executed at that instant.
The TROFF (an abbreviation for "TRace OFF") command turned
the tracing off.
(2003-02-02)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)