>> And anyway, I thought the original VGA board had 2D acceleration?
> 
> Nope. Back then, even 2D hardware acceleration was still the sole domain 
> of specialized display adapters, such as IBM's 8514/A (which later 
> "fused" with VGA into XGA though if I'm not mistaken).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vga

Claims that the original VGA card has "some support for raster ops". Of 
course, being Wikipedia, it doesn't elaborate further...

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