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A Windows accelerator was a type of Graphics processing unit for personal computers with additional acceleration features like 2d line-drawings, blitter, clipping, font caching, hardware cursor support and pattern, polygon and area fills. The functionality marketed for accelerating the Microsoft Windows operating system. [1] These have been superseded by multipurpose GPUs which include acceleration for 3d graphics.

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  1. ^ "PC Mag, PCs with windows accelerators".
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