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My personal favorite counterfactual/alternate history is the idea of MS keeping their Xenix product and shipping Windows for it. Windows 386 Enhanced Mode was e
by nonesuchluck 6y ago
My personal favorite counterfactual/alternate history is the idea of MS keeping their Xenix product and shipping Windows for it. Windows 386 Enhanced Mode was effectively a hyper visor, as you say, and mostly avoids BIOS calls. Unix software like Merge or Simultask allowed running multiple DOS tasks using Virtual 86 mode. Windows apps as Unix processes in a real memory protected OS would have made the 90s so much more bearable.