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by blkhawk 3338 days ago
When Windows 95 was the Mainstream OS 32 MB was what most people had and 64mb was plenty. Most people used PCI or VLB 2D graphics cards. There was simply not enough memory on the board for IGU. Most PCs had not even got USB by that point.
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People who couldn't afford video cards would use motherboard graphics. They were usually not fit for gaming, except for low-resource games, and 3D/2D accelerator cards were sought after. http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1209125 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Integrated_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_810 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740