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by phomer 5625 days ago
These were really neat machines. When I worked with them, the dominate language was Pascal and I think they were running a version of X Windows (or at least a similarly powerful windowing system). The funnest part was that we had these utilities that would allow you to do things like 'melt' another workstation's screen (this pixels would all start to drop to the bottom of the screen). It was hilarious. PCs in those days just had character based screens and Macs were still B&W. Amigas were the most interesting micro...