Well, running it on UNIX made sense back then just like it does now, but the only other person THEN who would have understood UNIX was eaten. It actually made sense in 93
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein
That it was running Unix made total sense. That's we used in high school when I took c++ classes in the late 90s What made it arcane is that their "unix" inexplicably, suddenly had a weird 3D interface just for basic-ass functions instead of the command prompt Nedry used
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Irix perchance? It was weird. 20 years ago I had a job or we had a mix of operating systems, including a few Unix flavors, mostlyHP-UX, Solaris and Tru64. The Chemistry department had an SGI running Irix and sometimes needed our help with it.
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Yeah, but nobody with any sense would build a clunky 3D interface that - on top of just being 3D shapes on a 2D plane - was essentially just a folder hierarchy It's like if the Windows Control Panel made you navigate a Doom level to set up your printer
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I think the conclusion has to be that Nedry set up all these weird, dumb systems because he's an idiot and a weirdo who everyone hated, and nobody noticed for some reason.
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For those of us who were in at least the right sections of IT back in the '90s and early 2000s: we knew a Nedry. They were convinced that they were spectacularly good and whatever scheme they came up with was somehow better. Often they had been right on occasion in the past.
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Oh yeah, I definitely believe people like him existed all around. It just seems like he's not the guy you hire to run the systems at Jurassic Park.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @AmericasSweeth8 and
Hammond was trying to cheap out on personnel (even as they "spared no expense" on technological toys) both because they were overstretched on budget and he was terrified of security leaks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
That is in fact what backfired and led to Nedry's betrayal in the first place, because even though they grouse that they're "paying him enough" they wildly misled him about how much work he'd be doing and let his position fall victim to massive scope creep
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The office politics of the Jurassic Park novel are weirdly interesting. From what I remember him being a traitor is also played as more of a twist, since he isn't nearly as obviously obnoxious as the movie version.
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Yeah in the movie version it's like he's trying to draw attention to himself
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