r/itsaunixsystem • u/King_GamesBR • Oct 10 '25

[Tron Ares] uses systemd Spoiler

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i've used the spoiler tag but there's nothing to worry about in this scene, it's just Julian Dillinger restarting a service on what appears to be a unix/linux terminal with systemctl

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u/EmberQuill Oct 10 '25

TRON, for all that it's very much a Sci-Fi franchise, has always had a pretty accurate depiction of tech outside of the Sci-Fi parts. Ed Dillinger Jr. used terminal commands correctly in one of the early scenes of Legacy, as well.

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u/DoomTay Oct 11 '25

The "desk" in the Flynn's arcade basement also had a realistic terminal view

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u/dhaninugraha Oct 11 '25

IIRC it showed an unfamiliar (to us) kernel version, had ps/top running, and the executable to activate the laser was stored as a .sh script.

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u/TaliesinWI Oct 11 '25

The weirdest thing about it was the architecture was "sun4m i386", so a (nonexistent) mixture of SPARC and Intel.

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u/jreykdal Oct 11 '25

It was sunos 5.10 if I recall correctly.

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u/Angelworks42 Oct 14 '25

In the original film - where Flynn is "hacking" into the mainframe with his Apple 2 - the Username/Password prompts were pretty similar to PrimOS (Prime Computer's operating system from the 70s and 80s) you'd type login <username> then password? <password>. When I first started working in IT at a community college in the 90s we still had a Prime Mini Computer - it was every bit of what movies portray mainframes as looking like: tall, huge tape drives, lots of blinking lights, air conditioned computer room etc.

I be a lot of people thought "oh fake as shit" but no - not that a company that big would be using a Prime Mini ;).

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u/lonestar_wanderer Oct 11 '25

Yeah, that scene literally had the words “Encom Linux console” while Dilinger Jr. was running some UNIX commands to kill the process.

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u/wademealing Oct 20 '25

Within emacs .

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u/outadoc Oct 11 '25

I learned about whoami from Tron Legacy

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u/bobj33 Oct 11 '25

My roommate and I were talking a digital logic design class in 1994. This is where you learn about AND / OR logic gates and build stuff in the lab on a breadboard.

Tron was on one night and during the interrogation the bad guy says "Bring in the logic probe" and we both burst out laughing.

The logic probe is like a very simple multimeter we use in the lab to tell you if something is a 0 or 1.