Another thing, Catholicism never got out of beta. They are still working on the same code base as 2000 years ago. Can't keep people's attentions if you don't add new features.
I was raised devout Catholic. I got over it.
Beta?! We're on at least Catholicism 4.0 between the First Vatican Council, the Second Vatican Council, and the Council of Trent!
Actually we sold a lot of machines in 85/86 with Hardrives Kaypro 16s, Z-151's Z-158s. We also did a lot of business adding hard drives. 30 mb RLL was very popular. Windows 386 was 2.1 but it was sold as Windows 386 and only ran on 386. Again very few people bought it.
Why run DOS apps under Windows 3.11? Really simple. So you could run more than one at a time. That was Windows 386 and Windows 3.0's big feature. You could actually run a something like ACT! and your application at the same time! Formatting a floppy would still bring a system to it's knees but that is why they sold preformated floppies!
Netscape? You better get a copy of Trumpet Winsock first! Yes the browser plus 3.11 and Microsoft Office really helped. Truth is that only one part of Office really carried the day. That was Excel. Word was also a major also ran until Excel came out. And yes I had a copy of Word 1.0 back in the day. They also came bundled with the Zeniths. Nobody wanted it. They all wanted Wordstar, PFS:Write, QnA, and later WordPerfect.
Oh, I'm not saying that there were NO HDs back in 85/86/87, but I think you'd agree that the number of machines that were floppy only probably outnumbered HD systems by a pretty wide margin -- maybe three to one (or more).
Ah! That's clearer now. Okay, I agree re: Windows 386 then.
Yes, of course you could, but my point was more that you could be running Windows apps. (Or you just formatted the discs in DOS of course...)
I agree Excel helped to carry the day but a big piece of that was because it was so interoperable with Word. There were a LOT of holdouts from 1-2-3. When Word finally vanquished WordPerfect 5.1/6.1 that was as big a deal IMO.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.