alt Hacker NewsThis was perfectly normal at the time, my first UNIX developer experience was the traditional timesharing experience, one server for everyone.
Ironically cloud based development is nothing other than going back to these days, just with other set of technologies.
Remember, "The Network is the Computer" (1984).
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dhosek • yesterday at 3:45 PM
It took me a long time to adjust to a PC environment after being minicomputer/mainframe-based for a lot of my key years (from age 15 through 22, my main access to computing was through college/university systems running VAX/VMS, VM/CMS and a bit of Unix. TBH, other than its lack of pipes and a command path, I generally preferred VMS to Unix, with the VAXstation being my preferred working environment.
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The thing that Sun Ray added was the ability to move to a new physical terminal without logging out of your existing session, closing your apps, reopening them, picking up where you left off, etc. Could see it being great for e.g. university professors who have to leave halfway through grading a paper and didn't want to lose their place, or a long-running process that you didn't (or couldn't) put in a screen or tmux session.