Serious OS question?

Question

Ok, I have a bet with a co worker on this one. Is there any information that would at least give me a hint to what operating system the terminators were running from the terminator series?

My co worker thinks it would be a distribution of windows, but I think since they were used for a dept of the armed forces some modified version of UNIX/BSD.

I've been tring to google this but I haven't come up with much, if you type the search term in google what operating system did the terminator run? you seem to get a lot of windows vista references...

I'm kind of looking for a source to go by, not just opinions

Danlow, I hate to say it, but even though you technically didnt answer the question, you did give a source

""Skynet is a fictional computer network created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation for Strategic Air Command-North American Aerospace Defense Command and the main unseen villain in the Terminator series.

By text book definition a network is A group of computers, connected by a telecommunications link, that share information, not an operating system.

Good source of info though

Danlow, I guess I didn't see your source post...or maybe you did an edit, but thank you for your answer, however even though I think your right I need a source that proves it...so I'll check out your entire source when I get home from work

Answer 1

Haha, if you are talking about the terminator series, there is no OFFICIAL operating system they used in the movies as far as I know...

The program and company that was used in creating the termenators computer chips was called "Skynet, in some cases known as Skyn3t"

At a few points in the movie they show a guy using a computer to design some things and mess with the chip, there is NO GIVEN as to what operating system was used...

Skynet is the company and program that creates the CHIPS for the termenators in the movie. ... in the fictional story its a totally diff OS... Read below.




""Skynet is a fictional computer network created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation for Strategic Air Command-North American Aerospace Defense Command and the main unseen villain in the Terminator series.


Skynet is a machine network that has gone on a mission to terminate all humans in a global war. Skynet was originally built by Cyberdyne Systems, but when the metal arm and the central processing unit of the first Terminator were destroyed, the U.S. Air Force took over the project and started to perfect Skynet. Skynet was first built as a Global Digital Defense Network, made to generate machine models that would replace U.S. military personnel and vehicles. Skynet became self-aware and decided to terminate all humans to protect its existence. Every nuclear missile in the USA under Skynet's control was launched and in the counterattack of other nations 3 billion humans were killed in two minutes. The scenario as depicted is very similar to the one proposed in the movie WarGames in which NORAD removes human control from the missile silos, only to discover they do not have control of the main computer and become unable to stop it.



In The Terminator
In the first movie, The Terminator, Skynet is portrayed as a revolutionary neural net-based artificial intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems. It was brought online on August 4th, 1997 and was given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal for reasons of efficiency, and programmed with a directive of defending the United States against all possible enemies. It started to learn at a geometric rate, and soon concluded that its greatest threat was humanity itself. To neutralize this threat it initiated a nuclear war on August 29, 1997 (known as Judgment Day) between the United States and Russia with the intent of killing as many humans as possible. (Many of these details would be revealed in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.)

As a computer, Skynet craved efficiency, so after a while, and in a clear reference to the Nazi camps that exterminated Jews in World War Two, rather than killing humans on sight it would have its drones round them up into concentration camps for orderly and efficient disposal. The only humans kept alive were the ones forced to run the corpse disposal teams, which ran "night and day." Humans in the camps were all painfully laser branded with bar-codes on their arms. This efficiency contributed to Skynet's undoing: John Connor was able to free these grouped-together humans and use them to build a Tech-Com resistance army.

Under Connor, the human resistance turned the tide on the machines and eventually smashed their defense grid. Having lost, Skynet sent a Terminator cyborg back in time to try to kill Connor's mother Sarah before she bore John (see grandfather paradox) in a last ditch effort. Connor sent back his own operative, a young man named Kyle Reese, to save Sarah. While the Terminator did not succeed in killing Sarah, two events occurred that would have a direct impact on the future. Reese impregnated Sarah, becoming John's father. Similarly, the Terminator's CPU chip was retrieved by Cyberdyne systems for study, implying that it would serve as a basis for Skynet's design. Paradoxically, by sending their agents back in time to destroy each other, both Skynet and Connor created their own existence (see predestination paradox).


[edit] In Terminator 2: Judgment Day
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a partially sympathetic origin was given to Skynet: it was a direct descendent of a revolutionary microprocessor invented by Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson, a programmer for Cyberdyne. The company began installing these processors in military hardware, becoming the leading weapons manufacturer. The military replaced all of its missile defense systems and stealth bombers with Cyberdyne technology, effectively removing human decisions from stategic defense. When Skynet was created, it networked all of this computerized hardware seamlessly. But when it unexpectedly became sentient, Skynet's panicked human operators tried to take it offline, an act that would have meant death for its intelligence. Within miliseconds, Skynet fired its nuclear missiles at foreign targets, beginning its reign of terror in an act of self-defense.

In Terminator 2, the future was altered slightly when Sarah and a young John, together with a second Terminator from the future (this one reprogrammed and sent by the future John Connor) raided Cyberdyne Systems and succeeded in destroying the CPU from the first movie, along with all research into the technology that would create Skynet.


[edit] In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
In Terminator 3, the Judgment Day described in the first movie has been altered and postponed by ten years. In contrast to Terminator 2, it is implied that humans are ignorant of Skynet's sentience, which attacked humanity without any provocation whatsoever. The events of Judgment Day were ultimately not prevented, merely postponed. Ten years after the events of Terminator 2, Skynet was created as a United States Air Force project, a distributed computer network designed to create new military vehicles and make strategic decisions as well as protect their computer systems from virus attacks. One such virus had infected their defense computers, crippling them all. Under pressure, the Air Force attempted to use Skynet to remove the virus, not realizing that Skynet was sentient and had created the virus in order to manipulate humanity into giving it control over the world's computers. Skynet was initially thought to be capable of being shut down if only someone could reach its system core, but ultimately it was discovered that the Skynet was nothing more than software that ran by spreading throughout the world's computer networks and was incapable of being disabled from a central point. The robots and machines in Skynet attacked the humans inside, killing many of them, including Brewster. John Connor and Kate Brewster managed to escape. Judgment Day occurred, but John Connor survived. It is suggested that future events unfolded as they were supposed to.

Skynet gained access to several autonomous military drones (such as the T-1 in Terminator 3), using them to round up survivors, who were forced to build automatic factories and robots that were better at construction than the military robots. Skynet then killed these human slaves, and using the infrastructure they had been forced to start, rapidly designed newer and better machines until it controlled an extremely advanced empire centred on a city-state located in the state of Colorado in the United States, known as Sector Zero on Earth by 2029, at the Cheyenne Mountain complex, presumably the precise former location of NORAD.

Answer 2

UNIX
probably modified

Answer 3

they could be using
unix/linux or java (not javascript)
I can tell you for sure it was not any kind of microsoft windows.... they never died and had to reboot windows...

Answer 4

id say your right with the UNIX/BSD the IT guy at my school asgrees