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ErroneousBoshyesterday at 5:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Computers didn't used to have GPUs back then when 150kB was a significant amount of graphics memory.


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trollbridgeyesterday at 10:55 PM

The IBM PGC (1984) was a discrete GPU with 320kB of RAM and slightly over 64kB of ROM.

The EGA (1984) and VGA (1987) could conceivably be considered a GPU although not turning complete. EGA had 64, 128, 192, or 256K and VGA 256K.

The 8514/A (1987) was Turing complete although it had 512kB. The Image Adapter/A (1989) was far more powerful, pretty much the first modern GPU as we know them and came with 1MB expandable to 3MB.