... not even Windows 3.1 could multitask, you could only use one program at the time.
To be precise, Windows 3.x
did multitask, at least on a 386 - however, only on the much more primitive, cooperative level (which the application needed to allow and some just didn't). Amiga OS offered preemptive multitasking from the beginning - a feature which required 10 years to reach the mainstream Windows platform (Windows 95).
