I have a lot of nostalgia for Solaris and Irix circa 2000. They had their uses and places, especially when coupled with SGI and Sun hardware. I think mostly the

I have a lot of nostalgia for Solaris and Irix circa 2000. They had their uses and places, especially when coupled with SGI and Sun hardware. I think mostly the reason its nostalgic is that it reminds me of a "golden age" (late 1970's to mid-1990's?) of accessible computing when computers were still the domain of nerds.