I guess it was situational then, but </big_generalization> all top universities in the US had loads of boxes running BSD variants at this time, ranging from big

I guess it was situational then, but </big_generalization> all top universities in the US had loads of boxes running BSD variants at this time, ranging from big-iron Vaxen down to NeXT cubes and Sun workstations. I am trying to think of a major NSFNet participant that was not producing some open-source BSD-ready software at the time and not many come to mind.