Peak Solaris: SparcStation 10 running Solaris 5.5.1, with Solaris OPENSTEP as window manager, and Wabi (Windows 3.1 environment) plus Macintosh Application Environment as applications.

Unfortunately the colours in Wabi and MAE are off, as I only have a cgsix...

#retrocomputing #solaris

@TheGibson Even under the MAD doctrine, tactical nuclear weapons were still seen as an option, and 70s/80s West Germany was more or less living on the expectation to be the battlefield between the Eastern Bloc and NATO, including some of those. No Future, and all that.

But hey, I guess the plan to have most of West Germany as a buffer to hold off the Red Army and fly in support through all the airbases down the Rhine Valley would have totally worked out, nukes or not.

@TheGibson I seem to remember some kind of joke after Chernobyl happened that the fallout would stay over Germany and make no attempt to pass over the Rhine into France?

@rysiek Good news: systemd timers are different, with annoying new quirks.

@clacke At least you didn't get to hear about why you're not putting enough effort into your Tennis to be as successful als Boris Becker in your youth all the time.

No, I’m not collecting useless SPARC hardware, why do you ask?

@woozle Dynamic (hardware) environments, network interaction in general and client-side code from web services specifically, additional security boundaries, telemetry everywhere, high-rez screens, all-around complexity, and an overabundance of hardware resources which makes it seem that none of this matters.