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What were the Minbari plans if they hadn't surrendered at the battle of the line?
Currently offline, the web site for A Dark Distorted Mirror is on the Wayback machine: web.archive.org/web/20180811222042/http://…
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Whose hardware was the new Grid hosted on?
According to the uname output in the movie, this was a sun4m i386 running "Solar OS". Solaris succeeded SunOS in 1992. Speculation time: perhaps Kevin / ENCOM had influence at Sun Microsystems as well, and the Grid runs on a research/custom version of Solaris? ;-) The hardware might have been a secret, souped up SPARCstation, or a cluster of them, and based upon the little-endian Intel 80386 chip instead of the big-endian SPARC architecture of SPARCstations from Sun. The endian-ness might also be important for using the ENCOM trans-matter technology, which predated SPARC by at least 4 years.
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Whose hardware was the new Grid hosted on?
The MCP in Tron had a touch screen in 1982. So ENCOM already had this technology in cannon, and at least 5 years to develop it further.
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Why do Vipers use skids instead of wheels?
picture of X-15 landing with skids, alongside an F-104 with wheels
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Why do Vipers use skids instead of wheels?
X-15 also used skids, for weight reduction and simpler construction
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Why do Vipers use skids instead of wheels?
Galactica TV, not Galaxy...
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How valuable are C-3PO and R2-D2?
references and excerpts from scripts, plus weighing the droids' values against other items
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How valuable are C-3PO and R2-D2?
more on the value of RD-D2's specific model
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