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Re: Deeper Understanding

From: Anders Hultman <anders@pfawww.pp.se>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:20:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Deeper Understanding
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Gonzalo Balerdi wrote:

> >The Thinking Machine
> >displayed in Jurassic Park has lots of LEDs, and it IS a real machine,
> 
> ** What ??? **  When the girl is trying to hack it's UNIX ( if my memory
> serves me correctly, she says "oh, good, its unix" )  she just wanders
> through some rendered mazes, kind of a VRML world. It's more like Doom than
> an OS. Is *that* a real machine? .  Same thing happens here: IMHO, they
> spoiled the movie with this scene.

In the book, the Machine is several interconnected Cray's, hence the OS 
is XMP. If it's with or without LED:s I don't know.

anders
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