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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 100 points 7 months ago (31 children)

The movie came out in 1999. In the movie, they state that it's 1999 (in the Matrix anyway). Neo is pretty tech savvy and a renowned hacker.

My assumption is he would've used FreeBSD. Or, maybe, Slackware. But I'm leaning more towards BSD.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nah. It is DOS with Norton Commander.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just can't believe I just read the words Norton Commander.

It's like the Proust story where he smells a macaroon and all of a sudden he's remembering an avalanche of things long forgotten.

My brain defragging

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago
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