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Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by bfung on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:49AM (#48916397)
“It’s a Unix system. … I know this” XD

Back in the days when it was an MS-DOS world…

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Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by ColdStream on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:42AM (#48916683)
Just wouldn't have hit the same.

"It's a DOS system... I need to edit the config.sys because the mouse driver has taken up too much base memory and I need to configure EMM386."

"Oh great! Is this HDD Master or Slave? Where are my tweezers, I need to swap the jumper!"

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Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail by Findecanor on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:39AM (#48920679)
The 3D file browser was one of the demo programs that came pre-installed on SGI machines, at least in the late '90s.
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