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from: Duggy
date: 2011-01-11 22:46:12
subject: Re: B5 Actor Sighting - Bruce Boxleitner

On Jan 12, 7:06 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
> We saw Tron: Legacy over the weekend.  It had a plot.
> Some plot anyways.  That was a nice bonus.
>
> Bruce did a great job.
>
> I saw a continuity gaff that might be noticed by folks who
> were already in the computer industry when the original Tron
> came out.  A group from the office went to see the original
> Tron.  When I got back I stopped at the office and logged in
> to check my email.  The message on login was "You shouldn't
> have come back, Flynn".  I figured someone in the group had
> rushed to change the system banner.  Anyways, this was a
> VMS 3.2 system at a time when the current UNIX was BSD
> 4.1 with BSD 4.2 being a fresh release.  Sun was a tiny niche
> player at the time with a brand new manufacturing facility.
>
> When Flynn the younger works on the system he types
> "uname -a" and it says the system is running SunOS 4.0.1.
> That release was 4-6 years after the original Tron movie came
> out.
And Flynn went missing 7 years after the original movie came out.
Sounds OK.
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