I find your introduction rant very surprising. People mostly ask you about these things because you're a great source of information and your articles are interesting. But that doesn't mean you are forced to write these articles. Even if it feels like your readers demand it (they do, because it's interesting), you don't have to waste your time if you don't feel like it. Complaining about your readers demanding more doesn't make sense. It's only a sign that you have a large readership.
However, I am glad you did research this. This post was great.
I grew up with Win95 upwards, so I've only known 3.1 from other people. I did do some very basic 16bit programming, but nothing fancy. So I'm always amazed with your series about the ingenious hacks that made things possible which on first sight seemed impossible without hardware support.