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The scene where the girl goes "It's a UNIX system, I know this" was one of the most realistic computer scenes in movies during a time when computer output on screen was mostly fake mockups.

I was a kid back then but I'd seen otherworldly expensive SiliconGraphics workstations at PC fairs (my dad could only afford an XT clone), and seeing one in a movie was so cool.






Yeah! Much later I found fsv which was a Linux 3D filesystem viewer that was similar,

And also gr_osview which was the resource monitor we saw running on one of Dennis Nerdrys monitors in one of the close-ups




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