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The decline of Unix workstations hit me right in the gut. I went into college with dreams of working on operating systems for one of the big Unix vendors like S
by csixty4 4y ago
The decline of Unix workstations hit me right in the gut. I went into college with dreams of working on operating systems for one of the big Unix vendors like Sun or SGI. Linux started hitting big in the middle of my freshman year and those companies started to decline. Fortunately, I was also into this new thing called "the web" and I was able to pivot my career aspirations toward that.
- hulitu 4y agoWe all need to say "Thank you" to Intel and to the stupidity of HP (HP-PA, DEC Alpha) and SGI.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y agoI went to Purdue, which was on the leading edge of Unix mini's. (PUCC built the first multiprocessor machine.) Imagine my disappointment when I took my new wife back to the old computer lab where I wrote my stuff, and seeing all the terminals replaced with Windows NT machines. I couldn't fault them though.