As far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too. Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few li

As far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too. Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few lilac accents), but the hardware was damned solid. Linux probably had more to do with them dying off than anything else. Once you could run a nix on commodity Intel boxes, the race was over.