Cursed Silicon
blami@CursedSilicon @vantablack I saw the foodcart picture before and I find it double- funny because when I was working on Solaris at Sun and then Oracle, some of our servers had a zone called “foodcart” which we used to provision other zones for testing.
@blami Was this where the "Happy Meal" and "Big Mac" NIC's came from?
@CursedSilicon No, not really. I remember we had a lot of food references in code and product names, likely stemming from “pizza box” workstation line. Big Mac was afaik just play on MAC. Naming of sbus cards went Lance 10Mbit then they built 100Mbit called Mace. I guess Mace inspired the next card to be Big Mac and Happy Meal came after. I am not sure if it was Happy Meal because it was full duplex, def not because it had 4 ports because there was Happy Meal with 1 too.
@blami I do miss that era. Feels like everything had so much more "personality" than nowadays
@CursedSilicon Yeah, pretty happy as someone born in 1985 who landed internship at Sun in 2005, worked on Solaris until 2017. Computers were much more fun in 90s. In 00s it went downhill with all the cloud craze, smartphones, webapps, SaaS and subscriptions.
@blami '92. Far too late. The best I can do is tread through history as a digital antiquarian
@CursedSilicon Naah, I think you still caught Ultima Online prime time!
@blami Oh fuck. That takes me back. I would've been like...eight??? I played it like once at a friend of my Dad's
All I remember is I pickpocketed the deed and keys to some dudes freshly purchased house
Then he showed up to get into "his" house and wanted to fight me to get the deed back because technically it was "my" house now