I was only 12 or 13 then but I remember the discontinuity between an AS/400 setup vs SunOS 2.6 (does that sound right for about '98?). But yeah I distinctly rem

I was only 12 or 13 then but I remember the discontinuity between an AS/400 setup vs SunOS 2.6 (does that sound right for about '98?). But yeah I distinctly remember fighting against the platforms with such frustration (though it helped me a lot in my career so I can't complain too much). Wow, I realized they had a bit of advantage over their competitors but I didn't know their engineers were of that caliber. I knew that SGI made STL, but I had totally forgotten that they standardized OGL as well. Multi-CPU support VAX/VMS style still takes the cake in my book but I remember XFS being absolutely incredible re: latency against ext2 on Linux (2.2?) for small files while running an image host in the early 2000s. Anyways, that makes a lot lot more sense now as to why it'd be the platform of choice. I wish I had a chance to grab that gear before it was decommissioned :( RIP SGI - fond memories.