ChessMess
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Posts: 443 | Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 2:28 PM
Windows, Mac, Linux, all these are simply programs running within a memory space. When you run a program you are telling one program to start/execute another program.
So it makes sense that the Grid is itself and operating system, or does anyone think its possibly built on an existing OS (early Encom OS?)?. Maybe a Linux fork? (Was Linux around at that time?).where to buy abortion pill http://blog.bitimpulse.com/template/default.aspx?abortion-types buy abortion pill online
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insidetronworld
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Posts: 35 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 4:02 PM
Good queston, I would think its like a video game grid. Like a VR grid with the seven points of axis. Up, down, north, south, east, west and center. However there is no way to know for sure what a program might think if it did have the ablity to think and reason. What would it really think of us. If it was even aware that we exist.
It would have to be an operating system I would think. But one thing for sure in the movie their grid seemed to be very large and who knows how big it was.
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cirlin
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Posts: 382 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 4:08 PM
I imagine it's some version of the "Flynn OS #" that Alan refers during the meeting (what they've now changed to "Encom OS #" apparently).
We need a couple high rez shots of the screen as Sam clears it off. There's a lot of detail there and I'm pretty sure there's info about what's running on it. I've seen a couple shots with some info, but I don't know if there's one yet of the screen just after the timer goes away. I think that one has the most detail about the operating system.
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NickScalan
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Posts: 117 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 4:25 PM
I'd also like to see hi-res shots when Sam is stealing the OS from the server farm in the Encom tower and from Alan's PDA in the board room(that would be a good place to hide a Babylon5 easter egg) and the other various screens in that room.
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insidetronworld
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Posts: 35 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 4:36 PM
cirlin Wrote:I imagine it's some version of the "Flynn OS #" that Alan refers during the meeting (what they've now changed to "Encom OS #" apparently).
We need a couple high rez shots of the screen as Sam clears it off. There's a lot of detail there and I'm pretty sure there's info about what's running on it. I've seen a couple shots with some info, but I don't know if there's one yet of the screen just after the timer goes away. I think that one has the most detail about the operating system.
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You sparked an interesting thought. Maybe the grid is like the internet. It is a system supported by millions of indepent servers and maybe far bigger in the Cyber space then we can ever imagine.
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IsoLine
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Posts: 1,025 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 4:43 PM
insidetronworld Wrote:cirlin Wrote:I imagine it's some version of the "Flynn OS #" that Alan refers during the meeting (what they've now changed to "Encom OS #" apparently).
We need a couple high rez shots of the screen as Sam clears it off. There's a lot of detail there and I'm pretty sure there's info about what's running on it. I've seen a couple shots with some info, but I don't know if there's one yet of the screen just after the timer goes away. I think that one has the most detail about the operating system.
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You sparked an interesting thought. Maybe the grid is like the internet. It is a system supported by millions of indepent servers and maybe far bigger in the Cyber space then we can ever imagine. |
I think The Grid is the actual computer system. With an OS being an overriding program. CLU could be the OS program in essence.
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cirlin
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Posts: 382 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 5:14 PM
insidetronworld Wrote:cirlin Wrote:I imagine it's some version of the "Flynn OS #" that Alan refers during the meeting (what they've now changed to "Encom OS #" apparently).
We need a couple high rez shots of the screen as Sam clears it off. There's a lot of detail there and I'm pretty sure there's info about what's running on it. I've seen a couple shots with some info, but I don't know if there's one yet of the screen just after the timer goes away. I think that one has the most detail about the operating system.
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You sparked an interesting thought. Maybe the grid is like the internet. It is a system supported by millions of indepent servers and maybe far bigger in the Cyber space then we can ever imagine. |
No, they've actually specifically said that it is a totally independent system. It is not connected to any other computers at all.
I actually think that feeling transfers pretty well to the look of the Grid. It feels a lot smaller than the system from the first movie. Certainly it's a large place, but you don't see the vast distances and what appear to be multiple systems and 'domains' as in the first movie.order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pill
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Sub-Odeon
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Posts: 234 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 5:19 PM
To me, The Grid is just Kevin Flynn's word for cyberspace: the simulated reality that a user perceives when digitized. The Grid could theoretically be any operating system -- and if the next movie lets us loose on the internet, it can't help but cross through multiple operating systems. A user may or may not be able to tell the difference between them? Who knows. But The Grid seemed more like a concept than an actual piece of software.
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zordmaker
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Posts: 66 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Thursday, December, 30, 2010 11:41 PM
ChessMess Wrote:Windows, Mac, Linux, all these are simply programs running within a memory space. When you run a program you are telling one program to start/execute another program.
So it makes sense that the Grid is itself and operating system, or does anyone think its possibly built on an existing OS (early Encom OS?)?. Maybe a Linux fork? (Was Linux around at that time?). |
umm, nn, no.
An Operating system is a program.
Actually it's a collection of programs, coupled with a collection of rules as to how they work.
The MCP could have been described as an operating system but all the same he was still a program.
I wouldn't think it would make any difference to the TRON world what mechanics the computer used.
A car still rolls along a road, be it a freeway or a dirt track.
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rootwyrm
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Posts: 4 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Sunday, January, 02, 2011 2:06 AM
Yes:
Sun Solaris 4.01 i386 is the operating system that is shown on the screen as Sam wipes the display. You see that after he types a 'uname -a', a common UNIX command.
So, the world of Tron runs on Unix. Plain and simple. And, 4.01 edition is quite old, so its probably running on an actual high end 386, not even a SPARC processor from the late Sun Microsystems.
Oracle, who now owns Sun, probably paid a lot of money to have their OS be THE operating system used. But, now we know.
Hope this helps.
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Kat
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Posts: 2,394 | RE: Is The Grid actually an Operating System?
on Sunday, January, 02, 2011 12:40 PM
Well, I mean, we couldn't have it running on Windows...otherwise just as Tron was about to defeat the MCP....BSOD!
What do you want? I'm busy.
Program, please!
Chaos.... good news.
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