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PCI really became a standard around 1996 where you could buy a Pentium-166 and a GD5446 (or for an Amiga a Picasso-IV) for really not that much money (but the Amiga version cost 4x as much) and offered gobs of bandwidth. A couple years later the Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo-II PCI came along and we suddenly had the mainstream birth of 3D acceleration.
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