I don't know about UIUC, but I was at university in the UK in 1993. We had "labs" with about 30 Windows/DOS PCs in them that were for general use (meaning word

I don't know about UIUC, but I was at university in the UK in 1993. We had "labs" with about 30 Windows/DOS PCs in them that were for general use (meaning word-processing). Probably 1 in 100 students had their own computer (and if so it was more likely to be an Amiga or Atari ST). My course wasn't computer-related, but I took a few computer-based modules (graphics, vision, AI, intro to programming). All of these apart from intro to programming where done on university SunOS/Solaris or Irix machines (and Intro to Programming was in Turbo Pascal for DOS on those Windows machines). The SGI Irix machines (made famous in the original Jurassic Park) were really nice.