I worked at Intel from 1988-1998 and when I started we had either AIX or SunOS terminals (a few folks had giant HPUX boxes). By 1996, everything, and I mean EVE

I worked at Intel from 1988-1998 and when I started we had either AIX or SunOS terminals (a few folks had giant HPUX boxes). By 1996, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, switched to Linux and VNC. It happened quickly. First we started hearing about Linux, then a quarter later all the remote machines were Linux, then the quarter after that they took away our workstations. There were a few HPUX boxes in the larger pools for extremely compute-heavy layout tasks, but everything else was RedHat. Point is: I remember writing scripts for then main environment and every script had to work on all terminals. The three variations meant constantly armor-plating things with HPUX/AIX/SUNOS variable checks. I hated that. I was glad when RedHat came along and we stopped doing that. (Also, back then it was a sign of being cool to have an 8514/A monitor, and not the B&W sun terminals.)