>> This was at college of course.

Well sure, the colleges had the good toys long before the rest of us. But we didn't have college-level money at home or at work.

I left college (and the machines that existed there) in 1992. And the hardware there in 1992 was better than the hardware I had at home or at work for the rest of the 90s.

So yeah, the tech existed, but it wasn't the tech we got to play with again until much later on. By 1998 though we had at least moved away from DOS development into Windows.