My recollection is completely different, software was really slow on contemporary PCs in the 90s. Spinning disks, single core cpus, lot more swapping due to memory being so much more expensive.
https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows95
Once it boots, run povray, then click run.
It took over 2 minutes to render biscuit.pov, though it did manage to use SSE!
We used to wait two hours for a mandelbrot to display on a Commodore 64, and were delighted when it did.