The orriginal target processor—the Intel i860, code-named N10 ("N-Ten") and that was what NT was called inisde Microsoft. i860 was a lousy for hosting OS but awesome for graphics. Soon that was abandoned and NT tageted x86, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM coming in later releases.

Sadly that means over a quarter century of windows on ARM and it's still not right. Sigh.

Some games indeed. But I've also done art (graphics and music) and programming on Win 3.x with some of it being in proprietary file formats that can't be loaded by modern software. I could export music to MIDI and load that in modern software like Sibelius or Musescore, but I'd lose much of the notation. So instead I use the old software to have it on-screen or print it, then transcribe it.

Note that Two Stop Bits includes links to the Internet Archive for every post (see the 'ia' link near the story title).