SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked as proof that the 3D file manager in Jurassic Park was a real Unix application, in threads on movie UIs.
What it is
A short screen capture of SGI's File System Navigator (FSN, also called Fusion) running on IRIX 6.5 on an Octane. It shows the 3D file browser seen in Jurassic Park.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2012 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites masklinn · 2012-05 · on “The girl with the ANSI tattoo”
> I think it's a file explorer for an SGI box Aye it's FSN/Fusion: [LINK] There's even a screening of fsn in action on youtube: [this video]
Cites laumars · 2013-01 · on “Tron Legacy (2010)”
Yeah, but he also criticized Jurassic Park despite the fact that most of Jurassic Park's OS views were genuinely Unix (SGI's IRIX, to be precise): [LINK] In that clip, you can see fsn , which is a genuinely real 3D file manager for IRIX: [this video] Granted it's fair to say that the average theme park wouldn't be running IRIX, but Jurassic Park wasn't the average theme park (movie quote: "no expense spared"). So I think some of his criticisms are completely misplaced.
Cites frik · 2014-07 · on “The Business of Fake Hollywood Money”
Also The Net , Antitrust and David Fincher's Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have very realistic computer sequences. Antitrust and Social Network also show real source code that compiles (C, Java, Perl, Bash, HTML), Antitrust even explains "Open Source" to the audience. The camera work (especially showing relevant parts of the computer monitors and pan around to keep it engaging for a longer time) on all four movies is really fantastic. * The Net (1995) - filmed one year before the World Wide Web got traction with the first fully graphical Mosaic web browser: [LINK] * Antitrust (2001) - famous for highlighting the open source movement, features a "CEO" that resembles a mix
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