> i860, i960, 88K, MIPS, SPARC, POWER, PRISM I was a teen in the 1990s, and what I remember was thinking that the world of interesting hardware had come and go

> i860, i960, 88K, MIPS, SPARC, POWER, PRISM I was a teen in the 1990s, and what I remember was thinking that the world of interesting hardware had come and gone and I'd never get to use anything other than x86 chips. VAX? PDP-10? Alpha? Stuff I'd read about, even seen some assembly listings for, but nothing I'd get to program. Some systems, like Multics or Lisp Machines, were freakin' Atlantis sunk beneath the waves for all the access I'd ever get. Now, I have emulators for them. I have Multics, I have PDP-10 OSes, I have both BSD and Linux on VAX, and that's without trying too hard. I also have real, physical ARM CPUs, something else I'd never imagined I'd have. > Usenet and all of the crappy software that went with it Xnews on Windows is pretty good, and Usenet isn't even dead. More like "determinedly ignored even as federation and decentralization become hot ideas".