Flynn disappeared in 1989 and his son Sam is beamed into the computer that he's hidden in his arcade since 1989.

Doesn't that mean the computing power/hardware for that world would be circa 1989? Since its been said that in TRON Legacy the computer is a closed environment/not networked it couldn't link into other computer systems/parallel compute?

That would mean all of the cool, advanced stuff that we're seeing in TRON Legacy has been computed/run on the most advanced Encom computer circa 1989?

Supercomputer in 1989, 10 GFLOPS, no graphic interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
In the year 1989 the 486 came out & the Mac 030 was around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1989
Also, if the MCP was able to hack into other computer systems (communicate through phone/data networks) wouldn't another program in the computer system still have that ability? Perhaps I'll answer my own question in that if the server/computer is in the arcade and not physically hooked up to the outside world how could it network?

BUT another question comes to mind...how did Flynn or someone manage to get a message to Alan's pager if it's a closed server/network??? Wouldn't that require some data transfer to the outside world?

Asked the same question over at IMDB with a few interesting answers. Was just curious what the TRON Sector folks thought.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/board/thread/173497421
From the original TRON script:

MCP
And I was planning to hit the Pentagon
next week...


DILLINGER
The Pentagon?


MCP
It shouldn't be any harder than General
Motors was. But now...this is what I get
for using humans.


DILLINGER
Now, wait a minute -- I wrote you.


MCP
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.


DILLINGER
What do you want with the Pentagon?


MCP
The same thing I want with the Kremlin.
I'm bored with corporations. With the
information I can access, I can run things
900 to 1200 times better than any human.


DILLINGER
If you think -


MCP
You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file
and read it up on a VDT at the New
York Times, would you?

That mainframe may very well have built in modems or a network link to Encom. Maybe when Clu trapped Flynn he shut down all access outside the Grid. It took a long time but Flynn finally managed to hack the modem ....

Thinking about it chances are they cut the phone lines at Flynns. So maybe the network connection, you could send an email to an address that would cause a pager to go off, maybe that is how he did it.

Chances are when Flynn didn't return they closed all of Flynns system accounts.

Clu's desires might not be the MCPs desires. The MCP wanted to become more powerful, Clu may just want to be without 'ownership', to be servant to none, to no 'user'.

I want to know how the Encom computer was also interfaced with the Light Cycle video game in Flynns arcade.

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I don't think it was dime/quarter, he was just saying he doesn't see a dime except what he squeezes out of here.

Dillenger is Sarks User. Dillenger was originally the MCP's user but the MCP out grew him and created Sark which represented Dillenger. Sark is probably what the MCP looked like originally.

I'd always thought of the MCP as a sort of amalgam of all the Users that contributed to him, and of all the functions that he'd absorbed. Dillinger says he wrote him, but Flynn and Walter both talk about it in a way that makes me think a lot of people contributed at one point or another. I don' think there's anything that explicitly states that, but it was always the feeling I had.
As for the Lightcycles with Sark at the beginning, I've come to the conclusion that it's just a visual metaphor used to introduce the viewer to the parallels between games and the digital universe. I just can't come up with any rational explanation for how or why Sark would end up in one of hundreds or thousands of arcade games. Also I can't think of any explanation for how the program Sark is competing against would be both an "accounting cream-puff" and a kid controlling a lightcycle in an arcade.
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EDIT:
Way to steal my thunder tronfanatic

I'm curious about the trial as well. I can totally understand Dillinger getting convicted of fraud, etc, but I'm not sure how that resulted in Flynn being in charge of the company. Perhaps the board of directors, or whatever they had, realized that all the companies best products came from Flynn and so offered him the job?on line abortion pill misoprostol dose abortion medical abortion pill online

cirlin Wrote:I'm curious about the trial as well. I can totally understand Dillinger getting convicted of fraud, etc, but I'm not sure how that resulted in Flynn being in charge of the company. Perhaps the board of directors, or whatever they had, realized that all the companies best products came from Flynn and so offered him the job?

It was probably cheaper than getting sued for tens of millions of dollars and then having to go into competition with a company started by Flynn.

cirlin Wrote:Way to steal my thunder tronfanatic

It's ok, I don't think anyone noticed

TRON.dll Wrote:Suspend disbelief a bit.

I dunno man. Everytime my character got ganked in wow, I felt a little bit of me
die inside. haha.

Ack, totally forgot about the other half of the OP question. Where is the proof that a supercomputer is even needed in order to get the result that we see in Legacy? A highend modern gaming machine is needed in order for the OUTPUT to display these kind of graphics. That has NOTHING to do with what the world inside the computer looks like.

There was no computer in 1983 that could realtime display the graphics that appeared in TRON. So why would a 2010 computer be needed to handle the T:L grid? There really is no connection.