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back in the day you ran SunOS 4 on a SPARCstation and it was basically a very fast BSD machine, but better lots of dot com boom companies put workstations on web developers’ desks because they were started by people who wanted the computers they shared in clusters for themselves, never mind that a Macintosh or PC was more representative of the actual users of the sites they worked on also a lot of engineering applications started and were primarily used on workstations, this only really changed with the introduction of Windows NT and Microsoft effectively paying all of those companies to port their applications (even if they didn’t directly pay, they often provided free licenses for tools, free tech support, even free hardware from third party partners, whatever it took to ensure that no other platform had an availability advantage) like this is why the most common HP-HIL hardware after keyboards and mice are the ID boxes: they’re basically HP-vended security dongles that the authors of these kilodollars-per-seat apps could bundle (and post-HIL they all used FLEXlm)
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a little bit ago I set up a SPARCstation 2 with SunOS 4.1.4 (“Solaris 1.1.2”) and Sun Workshop so I could see about writing some code on it want to eventually make a Mastodon thing for SunView or NeWS
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