Sorry for not replying earlier.
MWS I assume you are talking about particular system utilities primarily?
Yeah, Solaris in particular. There's a lot you can do from the graphical interface using admin utilities and additional third-party applications used to be provided via sunfreeware or CDs. Also, the Sgi CDE version had some particular tweaks, like the graphical pager, and played well with the overwhelming amount of Motif software shipped with and/or designed for IRIX.
Below a picture of CDE on NetBSD 10.0 with Neptune theme and various windows and panels from time/xdiary, which I imported in pkgsrc a while ago.
