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It's a unix system

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Cited on HN 4 times, 2020–2023, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Referenced in threads about futuristic interfaces, exotic OSes and Linux visualization as the famous movie FSN moment.

A one-minute clip of the Jurassic Park scene where a girl navigates the FSN 3D file manager on an SGI system and declares it a Unix system.

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@DonHopkins Apr 2020 Cites it
on HN thread New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
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Sun made SPARCstations, not SGI, who used MIPS, not SPARC, and just called them workstations. Then there was the SGI Indy, which was an SGI Indigo without the go. ;) The 3d desktop file system navigator software running on the SGI workstation was actually a thing that SGI shipped, by Joel Sherrill <[email protected]>, called SGI Fusion, or FSN! Original URL of binary distribution: ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fsn/fsn.tar.Z Now archived at: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/sgi/bin/fsn.tar.Z [link] [link] >File System Navigator (fsn; pronounced "fusion") is an experimental application to view a file system in 3D, made by SGI for IRIX systems. >Even though it was never developed to a fully functional file manager, it gained some fame after appearing in the movie Jurassic Park in 1993. In a scene in the film, the character Lex Murphy, played by Ariana Richards, finds a computer displaying the interface. She exclaims "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" and proceeds to restart the building's access control system, locking the control room's doors. After the release of the film, some perceived the visualization as an example of media misrepresentation of computers, citing the computer game-like display as being an unrealistic Hollywood mockup. FSN – the IRIX 3D file system tool from Jurassic Park [link] SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator SGI File System Navigator, otherwise known as Fusion. Running on IRIX 6.5 on an Octane. If you have an SGI, a binary of this program is available at ftp.sgi.c

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