| ▲ | baq 3 days 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 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
> 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. | ||