<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">nice finding,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Isn't the 82786 just a regular accelerated graphic card?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Cyprian</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 01:03, John Elliott <<a href="mailto:jce@seasip.info">jce@seasip.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Stumbled on this while looking for something else: a paragraph of news <br>
from Popular Computing Weekly 1986-12-11:<br>
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> DR predicts Gem on a chip<br>
><br>
> Digital Research is hailing the arrival of the Intel 82786 chip next <br>
spring as the saving of the PC standard. The IBM machine has <br>
traditionally fared badly against the likes of the Apple Macintosh <br>
because of its poor graphics handling, but the new chip, which DR says <br>
will initially be available as an upgrade card for PCs and compatibles, <br>
is set to change that.<br>
> The 82786 contains an internal graphic processor subsystem and a <br>
display processor as well as a dynamic Ram video memory controller. DR <br>
is launching Gem 786 to take partial advantage of the new chip by <br>
running Gem faster, but the company predicts that graphic systems like <br>
Gem will be built into the new chip in future.<br>
> This plus the new chip will allow PCs to run graphics systems faster, <br>
and to use far higher resolution monitors for the likes of design and <br>
desktop publishing applications.<br>
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<a href="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/50/5/1986/12/11#6" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/50/5/1986/12/11#6</a><br>
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-- <br>
John Elliott<br>
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