It's a unix system
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced in threads about futuristic interfaces, exotic OSes and Linux visualization as the famous movie FSN moment.
What it is
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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What Hacker News said
Cites DonHopkins · 2020-04 · on “New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system”
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 <joel@sgi.com>, 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 manag
Cites tacticaldev · 2022-04 · on “HUDS and GUIs: an inspiration resource site featuring Future User Interfaces”
Let's not forget the scene from Jurassic Park where the young female uses FSN to navigate a unix file system to save the day. "I know this" [this video]