> SGI hardware was the sexiest hardware of the 1990s, and IRIX was the sexiest UNIX OS of the same period.

Back in the 90s my best friend's stepfather happened to be the top dog of SGI Benelux (Belgium / The Netherlands / Luxembourg) so... My best friend had an SGI Indy (Indy, not Indygo) at home.

After school we'd go back to his place and have fun with the Indy. That thing already had a webcam (in, what, 1993?).

I remember a 3D demo of oil pipelines, some crazy music video with little balls bouncing on top of sound waves and... the terminal. I learned my very first Un*x command on that thing.

One one hand we had Commodore Amiga and games nearly as good as the arcade and on the other hand we had the Indy.

We of course also had our mediocre beige PC with an even more mediocre OS: DOS and then Windows.

Thankfully a few years late Linux came out and saved us from mediocrity.