Re: Jurassic Park

[mspaeth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Gretzky)]

In article <2C30E64B.27847@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:
>So has anyone else noticed the Quadra 700 prominently displayed on the big
>solver screen during this movie?  I wonder how much $$$ Apple spent to have
>their mega-computer advertised?  Also, isn't it kinda funny that Unix was the
>OS of choice for the creators of the park?  Finally, have you ever heard of
>a SINGLE program (unsegmented) that was a coupla million lines of code and
>which took several hours to compile, written by one person?  Just a few deep
>thoughts for today...

Since someoone else brought it up...


Did you notice when the girl said "This is UNIX I know this.." as she sits
in frount of a computer with a graphic uperating system that looks like
the plan fora small city.... the camera zooms in on the display...

AND IT"S a SILICON GRAPHICS... guess the might Mac couldn't cut it... 

If you sat thru the credits, you would see that the blinking panel of LED's
that was always in the background was an actual CONNECTS machine (since
they thanked THINKING MACHINES Inc. in the credits...)

later..
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