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...
Well, I'm not Michael Crichton, but I do have a copy of the book here in
front of me. According to the book, Nedry was the chief programmer of a
team of programmers in Mass., who wrote the storage programs for the DNA
data. Also according to the book the computers of choice were Cray XMP's
(three of them...) whether or not the Quadra was the terminal of choice is
left out...
Apparently he also got wrangled into writing the automation software for the
rest of the park as well...That is explained a lot better in the book than
the film, although I liked the film a lot.
(Also in the book they find the back-door Nedry used to shut down the
system...)
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