Yep. A friend of mine convinced his mother to get him a $4000 Zeos machine in 1992 for his birthday. It was one hell of a beast for that era in time, being the

Yep. A friend of mine convinced his mother to get him a $4000 Zeos machine in 1992 for his birthday. It was one hell of a beast for that era in time, being the next to highest end machine Zeos was selling and I remember playing The 7th Guest on that thing up until I got my own CD-ROM drive. His machine also came with a Windows graphics accelerator video card, which was a pretty impressive piece of hardware. Back then, you could see the difference in redraw speeds between accelerated and non-accelerated very easily. These days, 2D is so simple that nobody even thinks about whether your card can keep up or not. Back then, even in MS-DOS you had a lot of questions about if your card could do VESA modes, undocumented video modes, etc, and sometimes you'd need SciTech Display Doctor to get those modes. Linear framebuffers weren't commonly supported, and getting the best possible performance required that.