From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: TRON origin Article-I.D.: unc.3933 Posted: Wed Sep 8 14:23:57 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 04:41:06 1982 It should be obvious that TRON was originally an AI startup routine for a highly sophisticated document prepara- tion program, which was called troff.