Thinking about "running faster and better" within another operating system
brought something to mind from the pre-Windows 95 days. IBM was vigorously
promoting their OS/2 Operating System as a superior alternative to Windows.
Unfortunately it had very little software written for it, but OS/2 had
better multitasking and far better memory management than Windows of the
day. The downside was that it required twice the RAM memory which was very
costly then. Windows 3.1 and all it's apps, ran not in an emulation mode but
natively and very well.

I never used it myself but apparently it was a valid claim. Windows 3.1 was
not renowned for it's stability, but when hosted by OS/2 it actually did run
better and crashed less. Once Win95 was out OS/2 quickly disappeared, as it
was awkward to use and had an ugly interface. For a short time (6 months?)
the best way to run Windows was under IBM and no doubt that was a spur to
the development of Win95!