"Could You Explain Programming Please"

[andre42]

@DOA said:

If the little girl in Jurassic Park can use an ancient linux version with a 3D GUI, then you should be able to tell someone how to program over the phone. In fact this should extend to other specialties.

 

I think that was an SGI workstation running IRIX...

 

[r3jjs]

@andre42 said:

@DOA said:

If the little girl in Jurassic Park can use an ancient linux version with a 3D GUI, then you should be able to tell someone how to program over the phone. In fact this should extend to other specialties.

I think that was an SGI workstation running IRIX...

I'm fairly sure it was FSN, I didn't notice what hardware it was running on.

http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml seems to agree with me.

[vhokstad]

@r3jjs said:

@andre42 said:

@DOA said:

If the little girl in Jurassic Park can use an ancient linux version with a 3D GUI, then you should be able to tell someone how to program over the phone. In fact this should extend to other specialties.

I think that was an SGI workstation running IRIX...

I'm fairly sure it was FSN, I didn't notice what hardware it was running on.

 It was FSN, and FSN was a Silicon Graphics "product" running on IRIX on SGI hardware only (at the time anyway).