From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tron \Tron\, noun See 3d {Trone}, 2. [Obs. or Scot.]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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)
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