Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 16:11:50 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Michael Bailey <michaelb@well.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, aw1@stade.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? Message-ID: <199709040641.QAA00403@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 1997 16:04:13 %2B0930." <19970904160413.48635@lemis.com>
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> On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 09:09:47PM -0700, Michael Bailey wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >>> In article <199709020125.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> you write: > >>> > >>> <Sagan's Contact> > >>> > > of course the best part of the movie was seeing the "Unix Party" sticker > > on the computer and hearing Jodie Foster call for the "Unix Processor" > > when the alien message needed to be translated > > And Microsoft screened that? They've have been the absolute laughing stock of the scientific world if they tried to portray "big" radio/radar hardware being run by MS software. Whether that's likely to have swayed them, or whether it was just that they actually used "real" control areas (I haven't actually set foot in either the VLA or Arecibo science rooms) and the accompanying hardware, I dunno. For what it says about their background though, the sets were good enough. (Though there were nowhere near enough lazy technicians loafing around stuffing things up, going on my experience 8) mike
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