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If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy:

https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

> I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded "equations" is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well.

Jurassic Park's infamous scene was actually UNIX though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

There was a Linux port too - but not used that in something like 10 years so no idea if it still compiles.

I know this.

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ...

Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces:

https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

Someone once made a HAL 9000 screensaver for the Mac.

The author spent an incredible amount of time matching the fonts and animations to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Unfortunately, he was too good at it, and got a nastygram from the people who own the rights to the film, so it's no longer available.

But I still have my download that I run on my machine, and it's very impressive in a very retro-cool way.

That’s my worry about this shell too. Disney aren’t exactly known for being passive about intellectual property (even though half of their iconic movies are based on stories in the public domain).

Oh man ... I remember the time that I was thinking seriously about doing Plymouth theme of HAL9000. The idea was having a little window showing dmesg at boot, and random HAL900 stuff on the other fake screens.

The Martian in book-form is very impressive, it describes patching, in binary form, a bug in wxworks regarding priority inversion.

I worked with people a few years ago who had done the exact same thing, which felt a bit weird. Not on martian rovers or anything but on production systems for electrical networks.

Did you mean VxWorks? I still have my certifications for that somewhere.

'... Choose emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t.'

Pah! Thank you for the link. :)

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