This absolutely was true circa 1985-1986, when the Commodore Amiga's custom graphics chips such as the Blitter was a huge revolution in graphics capabilities, especially many years later when combined with the Video Toaster to create the special effects for Babylon 5. It was very much a sour grapes - we can't do this so you don't need it - attitude from Microsoft. It only changed when IBM put out the IBM 8514/A in 1987 for the PS2 and it was copied by ATI for their Mach series of PC graphics adapters. Then suddenly Microsoft was a big fan of graphical accelerators so that the CPU no longer had to perform all graphics operations for windowing systems.
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