The 80386 is the most important CPU Intel ever produced. It confirmed the importance of the x86 line and sparked a computing revolution. And yet it almost never saw the light of day. This is the history of the 386 and why it was such a landmark.
from a user standpoint it was an absolute beast. I traded a box of magic the gathering cards (including many black bordered beta cards, oof) for a 386 DX-50 with 8 megabytes of ram and a 200 meg hard drive. Running windows 98 that puppy was such a great computer, one of the most trouble free and excellent machines I ever owned.
Are you sure you remember it right? The time of 386 was years and years before Windows 98 or even 95. More likely it will have been running something like DOS+Windows 3.0/3.1(1) maybe? At least that's what my 386 was running. 95/98 were Pentium era operating systems.