I also went to university in the 1990s, at McGill in Montreal, and we also had labs full of different architectures/vendors' workstations -- Sparc lab, Alpha la

I also went to university in the 1990s, at McGill in Montreal, and we also had labs full of different architectures/vendors' workstations -- Sparc lab, Alpha lab, NeXT lab, RS6000 lab (with AIX), and a brand-new Linux lab, but that clearly that wasn't going to go anywhere. I don't miss having to think about architecture and different Unix variants all the time, but I do miss the variety.