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by jacquesm 1784 days ago
Irix was the most clean and integrated Unix for the desktop that I've ever used, even Sun didn't come close with their offerings.
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rbanffy 1783 days ago
The most shocking thing on the Suns back then compared to the SGIs was the mouse movement. While the SGIs had a smooth movement, Suns mouse ended up jumping dozens of pixels between refreshes.

Suns were not really designed for desktop use - they more or less aimed for the generic case. SGIs, however, were built to be experienced.

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marcodiego 1783 days ago
I remember the first time I used a Sun Workstation. From a PC background, I was impressed by the fact that the keyboard housed the beeper, the keyboard was a serial device and the bios equivalent had a built-in command line.

It is a shame that such a small set of features jumped from workstations to the PC.

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rbanffy 1783 days ago
The SPARCstation 1 was the first of the family to have more than a buzzer. Sun 3’s could only beep.
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