Bad memories of writing CS assignments on overtaxed Sun workstations, with that crap WM. I fetishized those expensive purple boxes until I had to use one.
You mean Indigo, the Indy is blue :) (mine doesn't work anymore, alas, but the Octane is doing great).
You mean you didn't just use XDM to switch to a different environment like everyone else in the know? I just switched to FVWM, which was my favorite window manager at the time.
Exactly the same experience here ... Can't say I'm a big fan of CDE, but it was obviously from the previous decade ...