“It’s a Unix system, I know this” Hold onto your butts, gang… I just found out, via Pixar’s Michael B. Johnson, that the 3D file manager that Lex uses in Jurassic Park — “It’s a Unix system, I know ...

Unix in Lisp is currently a usable Lisp (not POSIX!) shell for Unix. The distinctive feature of Unix in Lisp is that rather than creating a sub-language for Unix operations, Unix concepts are directly ...

A Linux system, just like UNIX, makes no difference between a file and a directory, since a directory is just a file containing names of other files. Programs, services, texts, images, and so forth, ...

That computer is a UNIX system. A Silicon Graphics IRIX system, to be exact. And that 3-D file system? That was real. It was called fsn, and you can still download an open source clone.

But even if the file system was somewhat true to life, the typical Hollywood interpretation of hacking presides. In the famous scene where Lex sits down at the computer with the line, “It’s a ...