← Back to context Comment by mc32 20 hours ago No bloat was good! Snappy responsiveness on early CPUs. 4 comments mc32 Reply Quitschquat 19 hours ago Even xterm on a sun sparcstation running openlook was sluggish at the time. cde made it hopeless. lproven 4 hours ago Relevant:"Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes"(May 4, 2026)https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxe... HerbManic 18 hours ago Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while. trunkiedozer 18 hours ago The network is the computer.
Quitschquat 19 hours ago Even xterm on a sun sparcstation running openlook was sluggish at the time. cde made it hopeless. lproven 4 hours ago Relevant:"Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes"(May 4, 2026)https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxe... HerbManic 18 hours ago Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while. trunkiedozer 18 hours ago The network is the computer.
lproven 4 hours ago Relevant:"Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes"(May 4, 2026)https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxe...
HerbManic 18 hours ago Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while. trunkiedozer 18 hours ago The network is the computer.
Even xterm on a sun sparcstation running openlook was sluggish at the time. cde made it hopeless.
Relevant:
"Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes"
(May 4, 2026)
https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxe...
Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while.
The network is the computer.