SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator

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1. @DonHopkinsApr 2020· in “New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system”

   Sun made SPARCstations, not SGI, who used MIPS, not SPARC, and just called them workstations. Then there was the SGI Indy, which was an SGI Indigo without the go. ;) The 3d desktop file system navigator software running on the SGI workstation was actually a thing that SGI shipped, by Joel Sherrill <joel@sgi.com>, called SGI Fusion, or FSN! Original URL of binary distribution: ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fsn/fsn.tar.Z Now archived at: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/sgi/bin/fsn.tar.Z [LINK] [LINK] >File System Navigator (fsn; pronounced "fusion") is an experimental application to view a file system in 3D, made by SGI for IRIX systems. >Even though it was never developed to a fully functional file manager, it gained some fame after appearing in the movie Jurassic Park in 1993. In a scene in the film, the character Lex Murphy, played by Ariana Richards, finds a computer displaying the interface. She exclaims "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" and proceeds to restart the building's access control system, locking the control room's doors. After the release of the film, some perceived the visualization as an example of media misrepresentation of computers, citing the computer game-like display as being an unrealistic Hollywood mockup. FSN – the IRIX 3D file system tool from Jurassic Park [LINK] SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator SGI File System Navigator, otherwise known as Fusion. Running on IRIX 6.5 on an Octane. If you have an SGI, a binary of this program is available at ftp.sgi.c

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2. @frikJul 2014· in “The Business of Fake Hollywood Money”

   Also The Net , Antitrust and David Fincher's Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have very realistic computer sequences. Antitrust and Social Network also show real source code that compiles (C, Java, Perl, Bash, HTML), Antitrust even explains "Open Source" to the audience. The camera work (especially showing relevant parts of the computer monitors and pan around to keep it engaging for a longer time) on all four movies is really fantastic. * The Net (1995) - filmed one year before the World Wide Web got traction with the first fully graphical Mosaic web browser: [LINK] * Antitrust (2001) - famous for highlighting the open source movement, features a "CEO" that resembles a mixture of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in one person as evil character, shows Linux desktop and command shell, and shows real Linux developer: [LINK] * Social Network (2010) - very realistic, based on real detailed technical blog posts from 2004 on LiveJournal from Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin's memory: [LINK] * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - nmap tool, etc.: [LINK] --- * Jurassic Park (1993) - real 3D file manager application on Unix desktop, first use of OpenGL: [LINK] , see: this video and [LINK] * movies (like The Matrix reloaded) that use the nmap tool: [LINK]

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3. @laumarsJan 2013· in “Tron Legacy (2010)”

   Yeah, but he also criticized Jurassic Park despite the fact that most of Jurassic Park's OS views were genuinely Unix (SGI's IRIX, to be precise): [LINK] In that clip, you can see fsn , which is a genuinely real 3D file manager for IRIX: this video Granted it's fair to say that the average theme park wouldn't be running IRIX, but Jurassic Park wasn't the average theme park (movie quote: "no expense spared"). So I think some of his criticisms are completely misplaced.

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4. @masklinnMay 2012· in “The girl with the ANSI tattoo”

   > I think it's a file explorer for an SGI box Aye it's FSN/Fusion: [LINK] There's even a screening of fsn in action on youtube: this video

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