> That’s because in some ways, the ST and Amiga were better than a PC running Windows 3.x. If you didn’t experience it, that statement sounds absurd. But if you experienced it, you totally know what I mean
Do people really find that absurd? I was a Mac user, but I've never seen anyone seriously argue a PC with Win 3.x was better than Amiga or the ST. It was ubiquitous, but it was both less pleasant to use and uglier than practically any contemporary non-x86 option. It's not like Microsoft wasn't trying, of course; Windows had to run on commodity PC hardware designed to run DOS, which meant a wide variety of potential hardware had to be supported or supportable; the Mac, the ST and the Amiga each had a single hardware vendor.
i could have spreadsheet, database, agenda and word processor open and swapping between docs instantly while my win3.x desktop lurched and trashed disk with just 1-2 windows open. also win3.x at the best of times was pretty crashy. a few reboots a day was quite common.
plus memory. some programs wanted expanded, some wanted extended so you ended up with multiple boot configurations, some for games, some for windows, some for dos apps.
In fact, Psion did release a SIBO "emulator"* for DOS which seems to be basically a PC port. It's intended for developers, and hews to replicating the mobile devices rather than taking advantage of the PC hardware, but you can imagine polishing it a step further.
* https://home.hccnet.nl/joop.nijenhuis/psion/emul_0e.htm