In college (2003), I took a 486-40 laptop for note-taking. It ran either a DOS+GEM setup or OS/2 3.0. This offered a no-distractions (no games, no wi-fi) expe

In college (2003), I took a 486-40 laptop for note-taking. It ran either a DOS+GEM setup or OS/2 3.0. This offered a no-distractions (no games, no wi-fi) experience and ran well on the available hardware. Honestly, PC/GEOS would have been even better suited to task. Less resource intensive, but still with decent WYSIWYG tools. I may have to put together a bootable device with FreeDOS and GEOS this weekend.