alt Hacker NewsApple had been doing GPU-accelerated GUIs since the early NeXT days; it was certainly possible on hardware weaker than what Vista required.
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Zardoz84 • today at 5:47 AM
Windows 3.1, with the aproppiated drivers and modern SVGA card, had accelerated 2d graphics. Accelerated GUIs don't even need GPU or 3d.
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kalleboo • today at 5:06 AM
I mean Apple had a GPU-accelerated GUI in 1990, but probably not what we think of "GPU accelerated" these days
https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Apple_Macintosh_Display_Card_8-...
Minor correction: Apple introduced GPU-accelerated GUI in 10.2 with the introduction of Quartz Extreme.
Display PostScript did not have GPU acceleration, as far as I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Compositor?#Quartz_Extr...