Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

At the time of the 386 there was: CCPM, at least three *nix, OS/2 and DOS. Winders was what, version 1.0? The problem is not that we have windows, thats Apples fault. ;) It's how we arrived at it. Funny with I hear of new OS or a port of an older one the first two questions are can it does it run X and can it network. Networking is not the big deal it used to be and you see everything doing it even minimal machines. Windowing however is never trivial, like a fungus it grows and it eats ram, cpu and everything in sight. I was happy for years running DOS with Norton Commander (midnight commander for the linux user). What I didn't get with windows (V3.1, W9x) was a real multitasking OS. Why? Because DOS wasn't a multitasking OS. There lies the problem. Allison