Well, suns and sgi’s. 3D graphics with OpenGL. Supercomputers yielding to mini-supers for a brief time before the hp pa-risc came and killed them all. Superscalar machines and programming - daxpy’s and vector masks. Lots of multiprocessor development. Still a lot of disk striping as both memory and disk space wasn’t “unlimited”. Rs6000’s pushing cad/cam onto workstations. Being able to do fluid dynamics calculations led to soap bar cars.

Lots of good Unix work came from that time which fell into place when Linux appeared. Things ported from there to Linux pretty painlessly which greatly reduced the cost of hardware. And that World Wide Web thingy that started to appear was pretty neat even at 19200.