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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by neilv on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:53PM (#23285411)
Yep, circa 1990, a SPARCstation or Sun-3 running SunOS 4 seemed the place to be, for having most software off the 'net build easily.

I also worked on almost all the other engineering workstation platforms, for porting purposes, but a SPARCstation was my preferred main workstation, overall.

(I was a kid who stumbled upon a dream job. So many expensive toys, so much I could learn, and this cool Internet thing...)

Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by icedchai on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:05PM (#23288463)
I bought a Sparc 5 back in 1996 or so, from a company going out of business. I felt like a king. Nobody had stuff like that at home back then.