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Just fax a PostScript picture of the pizza you want!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...

>The Story of Sun Microsystems PizzaTool: How I accidentally ordered my first pizza over the internet.



Good reading. Seeing emails with 1990 as the date on them is amazing, and I love how they discuss things like banning discussing certain topics at work. I thought that was a creation of the 2020s, but nope... ever since people have been working together, some manager has been prescribing what they should and should not discuss. I also see that it was as ineffective then as it is now.


I used to work at a company that ran all their proprietary applications on x86 Solaris 10 and used OpenWindows (same greenish color scheme) all the way up to 2014 or so. I would have loved to have had that pizza app! :)

I still have a fondness for the simplicity of OpenWindows and how well it it handled virtual desktops. It was really cool to use on quad monitor setups.




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