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Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser

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Post by nitrogen »

Aqueous wrote: post #34
rcruzeiro wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She navigated the file system using fsn (which by the way existed. it just never catch on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn )

I thought it was so cheesy that it had to be fictional, because of all the misrepresentations of computer interfaces in other movies like "Hackers." This is apparently a common assumption. It's admirable that SGI was experimenting with interfaces. However in this situation having to navigate such an interface created a very real safety hazard. I suppose she could have used the regular file browser instead - or perhap…

Sometimes life imitates art -- I spent a good amount of time in high school making my Linux system's bootup and login screens look like those on Hackers.

Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser

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Post by jnazario »

scelerat wrote: post #37
S_A_P wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That movie was ahead of its time and predicted a unix based Mac OS. Prophetic indeed Newman!

Apple already had a unix-based Mac OS for five years by the time Jurassic Park came out, A/UX. My first computer job was at a nascent ISP around this time and most of the servers (mail, www, accounting) were Quadras running A/UX. One IIfx with several massive (for the time) hard drives for Usenet. It was basically the System 7 (Mac) UI bolted on top of System V unix. http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=A/UX

also MachTen, Tenon's UNIX on MacOS. it ran as a process on top of MacOS, not in place of (as A/UX did). i never got my hands on A/UX but ran MachTen for a while in grad school (i was too poor to own an SGI). this was before LinuxPPC and MkLinux/PPC were around, and before UN*X ports to mac68ks were working.

a comparison of the two from 1993.

http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html

FWIW BeOS made me feel as excited to use a system as IRIX did back when i first used it.

Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser

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Post by Kiro »

itsnotvalid wrote: post #39
Aqueous wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was so cheesy that it had to be fictional, because of all the misrepresentations of computer interfaces in other movies like "Hackers." This is apparently a common assumption. It's admirable that SGI was experimenting with interfaces. However in this situation having to navigate such an interface created a very real safety hazard. I suppose she could have used the regular file browser instead - or perhap…

Worst thing is when a movie did most things with real UI being thought as mocking things up. So latter movies increasingly use fake UIs instead.

I don't understand.

Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser

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Post by bronson »

mobra wrote: post #66
guiomie wrote: post #28

What is the hidden feature ?

"access please" with double space between words

Well, it's meant to be "access (pretty much anything) please".

access main computer system please

access local security grid please

access yer mom please

That said, it's more fun to get it wrong...

Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser

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Post by d34b4c29 »

malux85 wrote: post #11

Wow! This is cool. The computers in Jurassic Park is what got me into programming when I was young. I saw their 3D weather overlay when the storm was approaching and thought "THAT IS IT!". I was 8 years old at the time. I was determined to learn and create that system - I started learning C, so that I could open and close files. I learnt OpenGL so that I could create the 3D scene. I learnt socket programming so that…

Your argument is invalid, I learned how to code earlier with

00 10 20 30 40 50 and those kiddos hello world laptops were really early.

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