Before Win95 was Win3.11 (Windows for Workgroups), the first with an attempt at networking.
was that what they called NT? I don’t really recall now- but my neighbour was really into computing then and tried to get me into computing, but it looked too involved for me at that time- (I was too busy ‘makin money’ at dead end restaurant jobs to take time to learn the computer lol)
Anyway- he had the os on floppys if i recall correctly-
Novell had much to do with MS networking. Also a leader with its NDS directory services.