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A HN poster questioned the existence of 80286 computers with VGA displays.

And then there were a bunch of Amstrad PCs with 8086 and VGA:

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc2086

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc3086

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc5086

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> A HN poster questioned the existence of 80286 computers with VGA displays.

Young uns... I personally had a 286 with VGA back then...

Well, then I might as well point out, that IBM did make a 8-bit adapter for VGA, so I could use my Sony Trinitron with my PC XT 10Mhz clone. Beat the daylights out of my roommates 6Mhz AT, and ran Xenix, which most unfortunately turned me into a Xenix expert of crap ware. After a bad compile, it destroyed both drives file system, so I went back to just Windows 1.0.6, and DOS.

IBM itself or a 3rd party?

Because the last IBM 8086 PC, AFAIK, was the PS/2 Model 30 and it didn't ship with VGA.

It's an important difference.

The IBM PS/2 Display Adapter was a confusingly named 8-bit ISA VGA adapter. The PS/2 in the name referred to the fact that it allowed your prior generation machines to run the same graphics system as the PS/2 line.

(!)

https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/1014-ibm-ps2-d...

How about that. TIL. Thank you.

My brother in law had a 286 with SVGA around 1990...

I don't think I ever had an original VGA limited to 640x480. For a while I did have a monitor that wouldn't do more than 640x480 though.

Yeah, I think these didn't last for long? Maybe only late 80s. SVGA came about pretty quick.

Me too. And a Sound Blaster.

I played Secret of Monkey Island for the first time on a 286 VGA with a Sound Blaster...

When my IBM PC 5150's CGA monitor lost its vertical sync (and I was on a BBS and vibrated my lips so I could read the text to logout properly ... really!) I got a Cardinal VGA card for the 8-bit bus.

So yeah, VGA was possible all the way back to the original.

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