I found in one of my old cases (powered by an Intel 486 DX 33, yeah!) this Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428-80QC-A video card. This is a VESA Local Bus (VLB) graphics card equiped with the incredible amount of 1Mb of graphics memory (and I’m sure that some young geeks can’t believe that one day, video cards had only 1Mb
of less of memory…). I’m not sure but I believe the only thing that was accelerated was the rendering of some Windows 3.1 widgets…
And here is the PC that was around this Cirrus Logic vga card:
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