I'm just about old enough to remember "oldschool" Unix workstations (I used Suns at uni in the early 90s, a bit, even though I wasn't supposed to unless I was d

I'm just about old enough to remember "oldschool" Unix workstations (I used Suns at uni in the early 90s, a bit, even though I wasn't supposed to unless I was doing Applied Maths). This is when Windows 3 was new and 3.1 was on the horizon, which was a graphical frontend for DOS with some fairly janky apps - Paint was probably the highlight - and Macs were on System 6 with System 7 bringing stuff like Switcher built-in so if you had enough RAM you could actually have two programs loaded at the same time! They didn't quite multitask but they could, kind of, if they were expecting to. Using SunOS 4 at the time on machines with masses of RAM and disk space was a bit like how vans changed with the first-gen Ford Transit - it was quick and light and you didn't have to stretch halfway across the cab to get 1st gear. You could order one with a radio, and not only that but you could actually *hear* the radio at 70mph. And - it actually did 70mph! Comparing the SPARCStations we had back then to a modern Mac running OSX is a bit like comparing those first-gen Transits to a nice modern Merc Sprinter. It's still basically the same thing but it's a lot quicker and cleaner and the stereo has bluetooth and everything's bigger and faster and it's a hell of a lot cheaper.