I started at a company in 1984 where VMS was pretty standard, running on 80x25 terminals. (They also had Xerox Stars, some people ran 1980s-era Macs, and there

I started at a company in 1984 where VMS was pretty standard, running on 80x25 terminals. (They also had Xerox Stars, some people ran 1980s-era Macs, and there were a few LISP machines.) Then someone introduced me to a sort of minimal unix that was running on top of VMS. Although I had never seen Unix before then, I immediately saw the advantages and switched over. If I had to do something on VMS, it was painful. Later the company got first generation Sun workstations, running unix on metal, with large (for the time) graphic displays. SO advanced...and so much fun (except when I had to do stuff in C--mainly our team used LISP or Prolog). Eventually we even got an ARPAnet connection. But I digress.