Engineer identifies and explains every ’90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

工程师识别并解析了《侏罗纪公园》中出现的所有 90 年代计算机

Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, “This is a Unix system, I know this!” while using a computer with an unusual 3D file manager interface. 尽管《侏罗纪公园》是一部备受喜爱的电影，但它也因一句臭名昭著的台词而成为讽刺迷因的主题：片中一名角色在使用一个有着奇特 3D 文件管理器界面的电脑时宣称：“这是一个 Unix 系统，我认得它！”

Despite the memes, the film’s production team was meticulous in accurately sourcing the right PCs (and adjacent details) for the sets—not too much of a surprise, given writer Michael Crichton’s background with computing and his obsessive attention to detail in the book the film is based on. 尽管有这些迷因，但电影制作团队在为布景采购合适的个人电脑（及相关细节）时非常严谨——考虑到原著作者迈克尔·克莱顿（Michael Crichton）的计算机背景，以及他在电影改编的原著小说中对细节的执着，这并不令人感到意外。

This was made clear by a little hobbyist investigation from Google software engineer Fabien Sanglard. He scanned the film and picked out every specifically identifiable piece of hardware he could see, listed what they were, and shared context from other sources on their specs, costs, and how they ended up in the production. 谷歌软件工程师 Fabien Sanglard 的一项业余调查清楚地证明了这一点。他仔细研究了这部电影，挑出了他能看到的每一件可识别的硬件，列出了它们的型号，并分享了来自其他来源的背景信息，包括它们的规格、成本以及它们是如何出现在电影制作中的。

Truthfully, none of this is new information; people have been discussing the technology in Jurassic Park for years. But it hadn’t been put all in one place in a highly readable analysis in a long time, and it gained some traction this week on Reddit and Hacker News. Plus, Jurassic Park has been on our minds given the recent passing of beloved actor Sam Neill. 说实话，这些信息并不新鲜；多年来人们一直在讨论《侏罗纪公园》中的技术。但长期以来，这些信息一直没有被整合到一篇易于阅读的分析文章中，而本周这篇文章在 Reddit 和 Hacker News 上引起了一些关注。此外，鉴于深受喜爱的演员山姆·尼尔（Sam Neill）最近去世，人们对《侏罗纪公园》的关注度也随之提高。

Identified hardware includes (among other things) five Thinking Machines CM-5 systems, a Motorola Envoy PDA, and multiple then-cutting-edge SGI workstations, including an IRIS Crimson and an R4000 Indigo. 已识别的硬件包括（但不限于）五台 Thinking Machines CM-5 系统、一台摩托罗拉 Envoy PDA，以及多台当时最尖端的 SGI 工作站，包括 IRIS Crimson 和 R4000 Indigo。

For additional background, Sanglard shared this quote from Jurassic Park special effects coordinator Cory Faucher, as seen in the book The Making of Jurassic Park: Everything in the set was real. We couldn’t fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. 为了提供更多背景信息，Sanglard 分享了《侏罗纪公园》特效协调员 Cory Faucher 在《侏罗纪公园的制作》（The Making of Jurassic Park）一书中的引述：“布景中的一切都是真实的。我们不能伪造任何东西，因为现在的观众对计算机知识非常精通。”

All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room. 总而言之，硅谷图形公司（Silicon Graphics）借出的价值 87.5 万美元的计算机硬件、苹果公司提供的价值 35 万美元的设备，以及约 50 万美元的其他硬件和软件，都被用于装备电影布景和幕后控制室。

Two of character Dennis Nedry’s computers were Macs; each was a Macintosh Quadra 700. That’s a bit ironic, given the reported policy that today’s Apple has against product placement that puts the company’s devices in the hands of villains. 角色丹尼斯·内德利（Dennis Nedry）使用的两台电脑是 Mac；每一台都是 Macintosh Quadra 700。考虑到据报道苹果公司如今有一项政策，反对将公司设备置于反派角色手中，这显得有些讽刺。

There was thought put into the software, too. Many of us recognized the QuickTime video player in the film. Sanglard observes that characters were working in a real CLI at various points, and of course, there’s FSN, the real experimental 3D file system browser that prompted the “this is a Unix system” line. (Yes, it is indeed a Unix system.) 软件方面也经过了深思熟虑。我们许多人都认出了电影中的 QuickTime 视频播放器。Sanglard 指出，角色们在多个场景中确实是在使用真实的命令行界面（CLI），当然，还有 FSN，那个引发了“这是一个 Unix 系统”这句台词的真实实验性 3D 文件系统浏览器。（是的，它确实是一个 Unix 系统。）

Side note: If you want to experiment with the FSN file explorer yourself, you can. Earlier this year, computer historian and enthusiast Andrew Warkentin released a 174GB collection dubbed the “Virtual OS Museum” that includes some of the software you see in the film. You can find more devices to investigate, their specs, and other interesting historical quotes in Sanglard’s blog post. 旁注：如果你想亲自体验 FSN 文件浏览器，是可以做到的。今年早些时候，计算机历史学家兼爱好者 Andrew Warkentin 发布了一个名为“虚拟操作系统博物馆”（Virtual OS Museum）的 174GB 合集，其中包含了你在电影中看到的一些软件。你可以在 Sanglard 的博客文章中找到更多值得研究的设备、它们的规格以及其他有趣的史料引述。