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A '''windows accelerator''' was a type of [[graphics card]] for [[personal computers]] with additional [[blitter]] functionality marketed for [[hardware acceleration|accelerating]] the [[microsoft windows]] [[operating system]].

#REDIRECT [[Graphics processing unit]]

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These have been superseded by multipurpose [[GPU]]s which include acceleration for [[3d graphics]].

=== See also ===

* [[svga]]

* [[local bus]]

* [[blitter]]

* [[windows 3.1]]

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