One thing I do miss after reading these stories is that brief period where vendor unices were everywhere and none of them worked quite the same. AIX, SunOS, th

One thing I do miss after reading these stories is that brief period where vendor unices were everywhere and none of them worked quite the same. AIX, SunOS, the DEC variants, whatever ran on the Aviions, Pyramid, SCO, ISC, Xenix etc. It was glorious. Now its Debian varieties or Apples BSD abomination and nothing else. Even windows server is getting steamrollered. All the progress is now happening elsewhere i.e. virtualisation, containers, devops. I kinda miss the days where the iron was expensive and screwing up your Pyramid kicked 200 terminal users to the curb while you figured it out.