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by incrudible 1195 days ago
Actually they were, before 3D acceleration became a thing, 2D acceleration was a thing.
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layer8 1195 days ago
The 2D acceleration wasn’t called GPU at the time though. That denomination only started with 3D acceleration.
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incrudible 1195 days ago
The name may have changed, but the task of blitting remained with GPUs. They are good at it.
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