Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:19:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: "Eric L." <pharaoh@u.washington.edu> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREEBSD ON TELEVISION PROGRAM Message-ID: <199706131219.IAA06748@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.970612170300.21652A-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Eric L. wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > ? Terry Lambert wrote: > ? > It was SGI, and they didn't pay, they got placement because they > ? > did all the computer animation for the dinosaurs. > ? Yeah, I knew the animations were done with something like 80 SGIs (and > ? surely they were not free). Anyway, the commercial was so artificial, I > ? simply laughed :-). > > Wasn't the actual computer that was on the desktop a Mac? (a Quadra 700 if i > remember). > > --eric lakin > There was one Mac, and a bunch of SGI Indys. We (those of us who admin'd Irix 5.x, the Irix of the Jurassic Park movie) laughed when the comment was made about having never been down before. Anyone who has any experience at all with Irix 5.x knows it leaks memory like it was free, and needs a good reboot to the head every so often. And the graphical interface the little girl was digging around in is SGI's buttonfly environment. Jamie Bowden System Administrator, iTRiBE.net
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