My first time I worked on an SGI workstation, I remember running TeX on it. I thought nothing happened because the process that took around 10 seconds on my 486

My first time I worked on an SGI workstation, I remember running TeX on it. I thought nothing happened because the process that took around 10 seconds on my 486 tower ran so quickly that the window didn't even scroll: It just repainted with the new output.