In article , Wolf K
wrote:

games = toy. thanks for the confirmation.

Interesting example of snobbery. You seem to suffer from Presbyterian
hangover syndrome. You know: "work good, play bad". ;-)

it's not snobbery in the least.

As games became increasingly graphics intensive, that drove the
development of the graphics subsystem, ie, the video and the GPU. It's
because of the gamers that we have fast, high-resolution displays. It's
because of the gamers the we have fast CPUs. BTW, GPUs have been used
for computationally intensive tasks such as weather modelling.

not in the mid-1980s, it didn't.

btw, apple had a video card that implemented quickdraw, the graphics
imaging model for macos, on the video card itself using an amd risc
cpu, an early form of gpu acceleration, and because of the way mac os
was designed, apps didn't need to do much, if anything, to support it.