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Text mode actually needed a GPU to be fast, it just wasn't called that back in the day. It was dog slow on older hardware to render text in software, even from

by baq 1y ago

Text mode actually needed a GPU to be fast, it just wasn't called that back in the day. It was dog slow on older hardware to render text in software, even from bitmaps.

accrual 1y ago
> it just wasn't called that back in the day Right, I think they were more just like "VGA cards" or "graphics adapters" for a while, and before that would have been CGA/EGA/Hercules, etc. I view the first GPUs as being those with 2D + 3D acceleration.