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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42
1024x1024 32 bit? in 84?? had no idea they had that back then...
in 84, i was a very VERY young kid, playing games in 320×200 in 16 colors, on my dad's ibm 5150
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Only in VERY expensive professional kit. Think $250,000+ range. The hard discs were removeable packs sitting on drives the size of a washing machine. The computing power was bit slice processors for the graphics manipulation backed up by some kind of PDP11.
A few years later you could run photoshop on affordable kit.