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		drbawb on May 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The girl with the ANSI tattoo Y'know the 3D filesystem in Jurassic Park was a real program too, and it was based on a UNIX system. (I think it's a file explorer for an old SGI box; which makes sense as SGI was commonly used in the production of movies.)

masklinn on May 31, 2012 [–]

> I think it's a file explorer for an SGI box

Aye it's FSN/Fusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

There's even a screening of fsn in action on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRHU1XxMJQ

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