The full time guys all had a Sun on their desk next to their PC. We also had to run an IBM 3270 terminal emulator and X server to connect to the Suns. It was all so unstable. I rememember a bunch of "Win32s error" popups.
The other intern and I found a room full of decommissioned 486 machines, installed Linux and didn't tell anyone for a month. Everything worked great and then we started an assembly line of installing Linux on those old machines for all the older coworkers to take home.
> 3.11 also introduced 32-bit disk access and 32-bit drivers.
IIRC a lot of it wasn't turned on by default due to hardware/driver compatability concerns, and there were articles all over the place about how to turn it on for extra performance. Essentially they used optimising tech-heads the world over as a giant beta-test group for parts of Win95's IO subsystem.
It used segmented 32-bit mode. Flat mode doesn’t support virtual addressing which was accomplished with the descriptor tables (and the ES register) if I recall correctly. lol it’s been 33 years since I wrote windows drivers. Had to use masm to compile the 16-bit segments to thunk to the kernel