My first job as a programmer, in the early 1990s, was working on a tool that was used in one of the last US underground nuclear tests. It was a finite-element electromagnetic effects simulator, designed to help get off of actual bombs blowing up and on to simulation to help design for radiation and EM effects on military equipment.
My part was a 2.5d viewer that showed the input model and let you rotate it around and zoom in and out and such. We used X386 (the predecessor of XFree86), the Athena widgets, and GNU tools on a commercial SysV Unix for PC hardware. This was the era of the actual 386; maybe Linux existed but it was well pre 1.0 (I know because I started installing Linux in the 0.99 kernel days, and that was 3 or so years later)
Open source has been fueling the future of every single technical endeavor for 30+ (40+? more?) years.
My first job as a programmer, in the early 1990s, was working on a tool that was used in one of the last US underground nuclear tests. It was a finite-element electromagnetic effects simulator, designed to help get off of actual bombs blowing up and on to simulation to help design for radiation and EM effects on military equipment.
My part was a 2.5d viewer that showed the input model and let you rotate it around and zoom in and out and such. We used X386 (the predecessor of XFree86), the Athena widgets, and GNU tools on a commercial SysV Unix for PC hardware. This was the era of the actual 386; maybe Linux existed but it was well pre 1.0 (I know because I started installing Linux in the 0.99 kernel days, and that was 3 or so years later)
Open source has been fueling the future of every single technical endeavor for 30+ (40+? more?) years.