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Probably won't be as exciting as you remember.

We maintained some Wildfire systems on Tru64, which somehow took all the possible coolness of the "Digital Unix" name and inverted it into bizarro horror, into the late 00s, and it was mostly just depressing seeing what happened versus what could have been. Icing on the foot-gun cake was the IA-64 replacement ended up being EOLed before it was even delivered. That one came in on HPUX, which seemed to have been more often pronounced PHUX.



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