From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 7 7:40:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bne004m.webcentral.com.au (bne004m.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E00137B649 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 07:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 15241 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 14:40:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warhawk) (203.147.161.29) by bne004m.webcentral.com.au with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 14:40:37 -0000 Message-ID: <005601c0007d$f6a9a980$0101a8c0@mshome.net> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "j mckitrick" , References: <20000807153046.A6595@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 00:43:56 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don't know about molecule displays, but daemonnews had an article about xdm that involves spiffy login screens quite a while back. ----- Original Message ----- From: "j mckitrick" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 12:30 AM Subject: computer systems in movies > > This might be a REALLY stupid question, but here goes.... > > In movies with hi-tech or research premises, we often see > sophisticated computer programs running on state of the art terminals. Now, > obviously, many times these are simply made-up special effects. But, are > there any REAL programs out there that inspired them? For example, > GUI-based real-time 3D molecule displays, frequency analyzers, real-time > systems displays (like for satellites) or are all of these simply works of > fiction? If they *do* exist, do they run on proprietary OS's? Unix? SGI > workstations? > > jm > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > ------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message