Tony Stark's OS

[Captain Infinity]

Once Upon A Time,

Is there a group that's got a discussion of Iron Man? I didn't find
it.

rec.arts.movies.current-films. I've crossed this reply.

What is the operating system on Tony Stark's office computer? What is
the GUI? I really liked the folder-selected cue, the sort of
aspiration of the string of folder icons along with the highlighting
of the selected folder. The copying command was too quick for me to
identify. Was it a drag and drop?
I liked the movie.

I'm going this weekend. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can spot the
answers to your quiz.



**
Captain Infinity

[Derek Janssen]

Post by Captain Infinity

What is the operating system on Tony Stark's office computer? What is
the GUI? I really liked the folder-selected cue, the sort of
aspiration of the string of folder icons along with the highlighting
of the selected folder. The copying command was too quick for me to
identify. Was it a drag and drop?

I'm going this weekend. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can spot the
answers to your quiz.

Actually, "Jarvis" in the original comic was Stark's human butler--

Who later became the Avengers' butler when the group used Tony's
building as a base, and who was so shamelessly a baldfaced Marvel-vs.-DC
plagiarism of Batman's Alfred, it became the source of frequent kidding
in the comics.

Derek Janssen
***@verizon.net

[Heck]

Captain Infinity!

Post by Captain Infinity
Once Upon A Time,

What is the operating system on Tony Stark's office computer? What is
the GUI? I really liked the folder-selected cue, the sort of
aspiration of the string of folder icons along with the highlighting
of the selected folder. The copying command was too quick for me to
identify. Was it a drag and drop?
I liked the movie.

I'm going this weekend. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can spot the
answers to your quiz.

I'm referring to the desktop computer at Tony's office at work, not
his talking Jarvis AI operating system at home. The scene comes
towards the end of the film, and it's the trigger for the movie's
final battle.

[Forge]

Post by Heck
Captain Infinity!

Post by Captain Infinity
Once Upon A Time,

What is the operating system on Tony Stark's office computer? What is
the GUI? I really liked the folder-selected cue, the sort of
aspiration of the string of folder icons along with the highlighting
of the selected folder. The copying command was too quick for me to
identify. Was it a drag and drop?
I liked the movie.

I'm going this weekend. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can spot the
answers to your quiz.

I'm referring to the desktop computer at Tony's office at work, not
his talking Jarvis AI operating system at home. The scene comes
towards the end of the film, and it's the trigger for the movie's
final battle.

That OS was just a bunch of graphics made up by one of the film's visual
designers. Probably produced on a Mac.

[Heck]

Forge!

Post by Forge

Post by Heck
Captain Infinity!

Post by Captain Infinity
Once Upon A Time,

What is the operating system on Tony Stark's office computer? What is
the GUI? I really liked the folder-selected cue, the sort of
aspiration of the string of folder icons along with the highlighting
of the selected folder. The copying command was too quick for me to
identify. Was it a drag and drop?
I liked the movie.

I'm going this weekend. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can spot the
answers to your quiz.

I'm referring to the desktop computer at Tony's office at work, not
his talking Jarvis AI operating system at home. The scene comes
towards the end of the film, and it's the trigger for the movie's
final battle.

That OS was just a bunch of graphics made up by one of the film's visual
designers. Probably produced on a Mac.

Are you quite sure that it was a program or a series of simple
graphics, not an OS or GUI? I know I haven't seen every GUI. There
are surely little- known and little-used academic GUIs and even OSs
running here and there, in one or another of the hundreds of CS
departments worldwide.

[Forge]

Post by Heck

Post by Forge
That OS was just a bunch of graphics made up by one of the film's visual
designers. Probably produced on a Mac.

Are you quite sure that it was a program or a series of simple
graphics, not an OS or GUI? I know I haven't seen every GUI. There
are surely little- known and little-used academic GUIs and even OSs
running here and there, in one or another of the hundreds of CS
departments worldwide.

I'm in IT and while it may possibly be some Linux variant with a very
funky high-end shell running over it, I seriously doubt it. Most
probably it was a Flash animation or something created completely in an
animation suite.

[Heck]

Forge!

Post by Forge

Post by Heck

Post by Forge
That OS was just a bunch of graphics made up by one of the film's visual
designers. Probably produced on a Mac.

Are you quite sure that it was a program or a series of simple
graphics, not an OS or GUI? I know I haven't seen every GUI. There
are surely little- known and little-used academic GUIs and even OSs
running here and there, in one or another of the hundreds of CS
departments worldwide.

I'm in IT and while it may possibly be some Linux variant with a very
funky high-end shell running over it, I seriously doubt it. Most
probably it was a Flash animation or something created completely in an
animation suite.

Thanks. I thought that was likely, too.

Here's an article on GUIs from 2001. Not directly relevant to this,
but it does present some interesting ideas and suggests there's great
diversity in GUIs.

The Next Computer Interface
(http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/dec01/tristram.asp)

By Claire Tristram

Technology Review
December 2001