we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.
We had a bunch of DECpc XL dual Pentiums a few years before that too.
I'm pretty sure it was on nt3.51 at that stage with exceed for remote X windows apps and a bunch of bespoke win32 stuff.
we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.