To me as a teenager in the late 90s, Sun workstations still had enough prestige that I wanted to get my hands on one. In hindsight it was irrational, but I felt

To me as a teenager in the late 90s, Sun workstations still had enough prestige that I wanted to get my hands on one. In hindsight it was irrational, but I felt that these "workstations" were real computers, as opposed to mere garden-variety PCs running Windows or even Linux. Then, at my first job in 2000 as a code monkey in a cubicle, I got to use a Sun workstation for some of my work (by then I was the second or third employee to have that particular box). I discovered that a PC running Linux was better in every way... except that I couldn't run Linux at work (Windows NT 4.0 on the PC). So much for the vaunted Sun workstation, at least by that time.