From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 7 15:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521EE37BCAC for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:33:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.147]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000807233250.RHUG3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:32:50 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03629; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:33:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:33:33 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: j mckitrick Cc: Hubert Yamada , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000807233333.N254@parish> References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:48:26PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:48:26PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:26:29AM -1000, Hubert Yamada wrote: > | I think that we are talking about very custom software written for a very > | small community, so the development costs on a per-unit basis is > | absolutely huge. In my case, a lot of the software is one of a kind to > | control one-of-a-kind hardware, so the software cost is basically the same > | as my salary, so nobody wants to spend the money to make it pretty. They > | just want it to work -- which is non-trivial, because the hardware often > | doesn't perform the way that it is supposed to either. > > Well, that's too bad. Because the 'software' on Twister, Contact, The > Relic, and several other recent movies looks quite cool. It even makes > people think Unix might actually be friendly. :) > > I guess the display on 'The Net' could have been from a real Sun > workstation, right? > Don't forget BSD9.2 in Die Hard :) > jm > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > If you can't learn to do something well, > learn to enjoy doing it poorly. > ------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message