There was a way to “drop to DOS” alright, which is what you would have had to do for games and the like. Can’t remember the exact mechanism but it could have be

There was a way to “drop to DOS” alright, which is what you would have had to do for games and the like. Can’t remember the exact mechanism but it could have been the x on the “program manager” window. The raise Windows you’d type “win” and if you wanted to “boot to windows” you would call “win” from your autoexec.bat