Still, most people interact with AI via a messenger-like app, not a terminal-like one.

Still, they managed to bring Unix to the masses. On a RISC platform even.

And their Unix is just fine.

Exactly.

Who could imagine Apple would eventually inherit Sun’s crown as the king of the RISC unix workstation?

3.1 was still nice compared to its main competitor, which was MacOS 7. Only the richest kids would be running things like Solaris, SCO, and other preemptive multitasking systems because memory demands were high and memory was very expensive.

Also, Windows 3 would run on 286 computers (as would OS/2), which made the barrier of entry very low. I started running it on a 286 with a Hercules adapter.

> No one bothered to try programming under Windows 3.1!

VB and Windows 3.11 paid for my first home. I wouldn’t enjoy programming in C in Windows though, and, IIRC, it was a while before Microsoft’s C tooling got a Windows version.

Agreed. This was, so far, my worst experience with liberation of locked down machines. It’s fun that it scaled to that many units.