>The reality is by 1992, 93, 94 the workstation market was already being heavily disrupted by Linux
From Wikipedia:
> Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks)[16] is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel,[17] a kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds
I personally bought a 486 (and left the Atari ST world) in the winter of 1992 precisely so I could run the earliest versions of Linux. Which were next to useless, but so was running most of the Unix-ish stuff on 68k platforms.
From Wikipedia:
> Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks)[16] is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel,[17] a kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds
The first linux was not able to run much.