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Which Hollywood movies feature the most ridiculous code?
- DrScump 11y agoI think the worst mock computer interface ever was the scene in "Jurassic Park" where the girl tries to bring the systems back online. "This is UNIX. I know UNIX!" But... it wasn't remotely UNIX. It was an unrelated menu system so slow it looked like it was running on an abacus.
- DanBC 11y agoBut that was Unix, and the menu system was a real albeit experimental menu system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn It was slowed down for the film, in the same way password crackers find a single character at a time, or people who spend their lives typing enter their passwords r e a l l y slowly, or search engines flash up a "Searching now!" dialog.