Well, the 386 had a pretty long tail. I'm pretty sure I remember 286 PCs still being sold in 1990 or so and 386 PCs being sold after win3.1 came out as well. An

Well, the 386 had a pretty long tail. I'm pretty sure I remember 286 PCs still being sold in 1990 or so and 386 PCs being sold after win3.1 came out as well. And with how expensive desktop computers were in the late 80s, people kept them longer too I think. But this is all anecdata, and I was pretty young. But the first machine I ran windows 3.1 on was definitely a 386 (and I ran 3.0 on a 286).