[martinpw]

Ah, memories. At my first real job, my desktop machine was an HP-UX workstation with a monochrome monitor. The company did UNIX CAD software, so each developer got a different type of system to ensure we developed on all the platforms we supported - HP-UX, AIX (IBM), SunOS/Solaris, Ultrix (DEC) and IRIX (SGI).

I was instantly jealous of the devs who got the SGI machines, not only did they have color monitors (!) but they got to play networked games with each other (battletanks I think?) at lunchtimes.

[macintux]

Probably battlezone.

We would play that and networked Doom on the chemistry department’s SGI machines. The students trying to do real work were less than enthusiastic.

[wolvoleo]

There's was also a really smooth game where you had spaceships flying around and shooting with a lot of inertia.. would you know what that was? I was most impressed with the smoothness of it considering we were all on networked terminals on a shared 10mbit network.

[macintux]

Unfortunately we didn’t know about that one. No clue.

[somat]

bzflag, which apparently is still being developed.

https://www.bzflag.org/

[macintux]

More likely Chris Fouts’ bz, at least in my case.

[unkeptbarista]

I once worked at a shop that supported their product on a variety of Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. Most of the development was done on Windows, but there were some there that favored Linux and a few, Solaris. The machines running HPUX were primarily used to debug issues that arouse only on HPUX. I think the machine running HPUX was old and slow, so none there favored it as a devlopment platform.

[kstrauser]

Same. I ran the build farm at a large company, and HPUX was there solely to build releases and run their tests. I never touched it for any other reason, and that as little as possible.

Egads, was Itanic ever slow for anything not manually optimized to run on it.