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> The monospace font reminds me of the console on old Sun workstations running SunOS.

Yes! It really does: http://toastytech.com/guis/sv411boot.png

But I think it's mostly to do with the non-uniform line thickness (look at the asymmetry of the 'x').

To me it looks better than the SunOS font, but it certainly does resemble it. That's probably why it looks "old" to me, and not in a particularly nostalgic way. Then again, I didn't use Suns all that much.

It's easy to fix though. Just pour more Knuthian bullshit on it until the hackers think its flaws represent important aesthetic decisions. It was made by an important type foundry adhering to the strictest mathematical principles, after all!

I've actually been trying to find a PCF or TTF variant of that Sun font. If anyone can point me to it, I'd be grateful. Maybe in some folder of opensolaris or illumos?