Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008071306001.10067-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000807111031.A12922@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: :Some of this stuff exists, but most if it's a complete fiction and :totally useless (i.e. the "UNIX" system in Jurssic Park). I read an :interview that talked a little about making these displays a few weeks :ago it's at: The system in Jurassic Park was SGI's Buttonfly interface and the videoconferencing programs you saw were also standard Irix tools. The machines primarily shown were Indys. Buttonfly was useless for real life, but it looked neat on the big screen to Joe/Jane Moviegoer. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.10.10008071306001.10067-100000>