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I worked with 88K DG/UX. Back in those times our company did a desktop environment for UNIX workstations (X Windows didn't come with one as standard). We had

I worked with 88K DG/UX. Back in those times our company did a desktop environment for UNIX workstations (X Windows didn't come with one as standard). We had over 20 different versions of UNIX systems, including a Sony workstation. 88K DG/UX didn't last very long before they switched to x86, which we also had. Under my desk I had Motorola's 88110 system (a stackable with a SCSI floppy disk!) The thing that stood out most about DG was just how nice all their staff were. I mean really nice. Even in those days it became very apparent that whatever workstations developers worked on were what was then best supported in the products even for non-GUI software. Slowly but surely the workstation vendors dropped support to server only, meanwhile Windows spread from workstations to servers even though it was considered inferior. Linux also spread for the same reasons.

doctor_eval 5y ago
Yeah I worked on Aviions and Clarriions in healthcare, I think we had the first DG RAID 5 array delivered in Western Australia, there’s a photo of me and my boss standing proudly on either side of it as it came off the back of the truck. All 2.5 GB of it! The DG gear was awesome, the OS was great and even the support was terrific. Such a shame they died. I never considered the rise of Windows as a development platform as being the driver for that failure but it makes sense. I used to work on X terminals and then Linux workstations, and with DG being strongly into GNU tools I didn’t see the Windows side of things at all until much later in my career. But this really supports up the idea that if devs move to ARM, so will the cloud.