What still blows my mind is that there were vastly better technologies at the time. Back in 1992 or so, I was an Amiga user. I was blessed with both advanced G

What still blows my mind is that there were vastly better technologies at the time. Back in 1992 or so, I was an Amiga user. I was blessed with both advanced GUIs and advanced shells. AmigaOS wasn't quite Unix, but the shell had similar power. I had friends who used Apple Macintosh computers, and they also bragged about the stuff they could do. (And of course you had other things like NeXT, Acorn's RISC OS, SCO UNIX, and OS/2, all of which had pre-emptive multitasking, but weren't on my radar at the time.) But the PC was everywhere, and the Amiga was fading, so I got a PC, even though it was ridiculously primitive. While building PCs was fun, everything was a struggle. DOS was crappy, you had to fiddle with memory managers, no multitasking, a terrible file system, and so on. Windows 3.0 was not the dominant player that it would become with Windows 95, and you still did many things in DOS, such as programming. On the positive side, the gaming situation was pretty much as good as it had been on the Amiga. The 1990s was a great time for games. But it's insane that so much superior tech existed at the time, yet we lost of all that to MS-DOS. It wasn't really until Windows 2000 that we had something decent again, even then it was quickly derailed. I really appreciate that Apple came back and MacOS X became an alternative.