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Comment by rootbear

Well, it's a stretch, but when I saw Die Hard I just barely caught the BSD reference when they log into the CEO's terminal. I found a screen shot on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/

That's a pretty hackerish reference for a film made in 1988 that wasn't particularly about computers or tech. There was probably a BSD fan at the company that created the computer screens. FreeBSD 9.2 had a tribute to this in it's boot screen:

https://mebsd.com/make-build-your-freebsd-word/freebsd-9-2-d...

parent rootbear 10 years ago

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