From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 7 20: 0: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8267237B514; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA78430; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:00:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Mark Ovens Cc: j mckitrick , Hubert Yamada , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: computer systems in movies In-Reply-To: <20000807233333.N254@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: >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 :) I think I saw something on the screen in "Sphere" about BSD and rlogin. I haven't bothered to pause the film to inspect yet tho ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message