Those early 386s had an insane amount of flaws:

https://www.pcjs.org/documents/manuals/intel/80386/

I used to have an old 386 server that was the size of a fridge and was apparently the first 386 commercial product. I wish I still had it now so I could take a look at the CPU!

See also for the official comment on the Windows 95/386 issue: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110112-00/?p=11...