Comment on Ask HN: Was Sun Microsystems the last respectable tech company?Comments−meindnoch2yNeXT, Sun, Silicon Graphics, 3D/fx. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...−Turing_Machine2yAs far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too.Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few lilac accents), but the hardware was damned solid.Linux probably had more to do with them dying off than anything else. Once you could run a nix on commodity Intel boxes, the race was over.
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NeXT, Sun, Silicon Graphics, 3D/fx. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
As far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too.
Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few lilac accents), but the hardware was damned solid.
Linux probably had more to do with them dying off than anything else. Once you could run a nix on commodity Intel boxes, the race was over.