I remember me and another guy at work bringing home a Solaris CD and trying to install it on our commodity hardware (we were both enamored by Unix and wanted to

I remember me and another guy at work bringing home a Solaris CD and trying to install it on our commodity hardware (we were both enamored by Unix and wanted to have access to it at home for programming and tinkering). As expected (not by us then though), it didn't install. Around the same time, magazines started including Linux CDs and I was able to get one of those going. But the credit for lighting the sparc still goes to Sun.