Mind you, the original Mac came out in 1984; the standard PC operating system was MS-DOS (3.0 and 3.1 came out that year), IBM introduced the PC-AT that fall, and Windows ... Windows 1.0 was still in development hell (it saw public release in November 1985). At least Digital Research shipped the GEM window manager for DOS in early '85 ...
Multi-tasking really wasn't a thing on PCs much before 1988; I mean, you could do it, if you had a bottomless pit of money with which to buy RAM by the half-megabyte and a 286-class processor and a memory manager like DesqView or a penchant for paying DR big ticket license fees for Concurrent CP/M-86, but otherwise ...?
Multi-tasking really wasn't a thing on PCs much before 1988; I mean, you could do it, if you had a bottomless pit of money with which to buy RAM by the half-megabyte and a 286-class processor and a memory manager like DesqView or a penchant for paying DR big ticket license fees for Concurrent CP/M-86, but otherwise ...?
Time telescopes our memories.