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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by eesmith on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:13AM (#38641516)
I don't know why others mock it, but as an older person working in IT, I can explain why I mock it even when knowing it was real software SGI shipped with IRIX.

(Minor correction: it was not shipped with IRIX but a free demo you could ftp. After 30 years I had forgotten that until looking at https://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.co... and similar sites just now.)

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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by PrimeMcFly on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:27AM (#38641665)
> I can explain why I mock it even when knowing it was real software SGI shipped with IRIX.

OK, please do.

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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by eesmith on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:11PM (#38645773)
Literally my top-level comment in this thread.
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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by PrimeMcFly on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:24PM (#38645984)
I hadn't realized that was your reason for mocking the scene, I had thought it was just being kind of pedantic and making an observation about the scene.
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