I can see the SGI machines. Those were top of the line things (though sort of more for rendering...). The macs seem weird. I still remember wondering if he meant svr3 or svr4.
Right - if it was all SGI, or even a mix of unix workstations, I wouldn't have blinked. It's just the macs that throw me.
Why? Hybrid systems were and still are common. Today a common IT setup is Macs connecting to UNIX servers over the network.
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Same. I'd have chosen some of those new Xerox Parc bad boys.