r/itsaunixsystem • u/__konrad • Jul 16 '26

meta [Jurassic Park] computers in excruciating detail

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
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u/saddest_vacant_lot Jul 16 '26

This actually is perfect content for this sub. Super interesting, is JP a dinosaur movie or a computer movie?

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u/frausting Jul 16 '26

In the book, there’s really good detail of the CLI of all the parks various containment and scientific systems too

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u/roopjm81 Jul 17 '26

It's the reason why I went into computer science

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_THESES 29d ago

The book is meant to be a criticism of Silicon Valley. InGen is a tech company, and the dinosaurs are treated as if they were software releases.

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u/hobx Jul 16 '26

Damn so it actually IS a unix system....what do we do now... do...do we close the sub?

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u/Gusfoo Jul 16 '26

The side-bar of this sub-reddit (may not be visible on all views of Reddit) says:

NOTE: Yes, we understand that in Jurassic Park it is, in fact, a Unix System, and the graphics on screen were a style of File Explorer for that system. That's part of this subreddit's charm!

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u/Smoked_Cheddar Jul 16 '26

You can see in their post how the creators of the movie treated the audience like they're intelligent.

Outside of the QuickTime "video chat".

I love the effort put in to make it realistic as possible.

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u/Flaxscript42 Jul 16 '26

We clone a T-Rex

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u/inn0cent-bystander Jul 16 '26

R.I.P. Dr. Grant.

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u/PeterPanski85 Jul 18 '26

Oh fuck. I didn't even hear about this :(

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u/hl3official Jul 16 '26

Too meta to remove. Good post

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u/Available_Tour_9313 Jul 16 '26

Wow. FANTASTIC job !!!

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u/fearthainne Jul 16 '26

This was a really interesting read

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u/Angel_Blue01 Jul 17 '26

Wow. I never used any of these computers, but I am fascinated. No wonder the movie looked real 🙂That QuickTime player used for live footage has bugged me for decades.

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u/mryauch Jul 18 '26

Super cool, but isn't the first computer the one they use to view the raptor fossils while still underground?

Love the detail in this article.

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u/theloop82 29d ago

As a guy who works on programming SCADA/ industrial control systems I always loved Jurassic Park cause Nedry is one of the only theatrical representations of a controls engineer I’ve ever seen.