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Actually, it was a Unix system:
http://movies.stackexchange.com/question…
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The scene played out better in the book. I think it was a Cray supercomputer in the book, updated to be a Thinking Machines CM-5 in the movie. That company was indeed flying high at the time, but before too long they were using the case of one of those as a bar in the basement of the Media Lab at MIT. SGI was heavily involved in the 3D graphics in the movie so the use of their computers could be either an homage or a product placement. The UNIX line got a huge cheer when I first saw this movie with a college crowd in Boston, but the 3D interface was definitely not what one thinks of as UNIX.
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Yep not too be too much of a nerd but it was a UNIX system (IRIX System V R4 flavor) made by SGI running a GUI called FSN which, if you own an old IRIX workstation you can run yourself. Of course it was still BS for the movie because they only made FSN for the movie, any UNIX user of the day would not have known what FSN was. Maybe Lex hung out at SGI a lot.
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I love D'Onofrio. I want him and Oldman in something.
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They did not make fsn for the movie -- it was one of the geewhiz graphics demos that came stock on every SGI workstation sold. There was also a bouncing jello cube and a flight simulator. No real person would ever have actually tried to use it as a file browser though.

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