The above picture is a screenshot from a videogame running on EGA, the graphics standard that made "proper games" possible on the IBM PC. It was a monumental addition to the PC's capabilities, and if you've played any significant subset of 80s and early 90s PC games, you've seen it plenty. So, you might notice that the image above looks... a bit off. This is because, as much as EGA enhanced the PC platform, there was an entire dimension to its feature set that almost nobody ever saw, because of a... highly questionable decision on IBM's part.
I got a comment on this post earlier, which I wrote eons ago. That led to me rereading it... and discovering a number of severe factual errors, as well as the fact that I uh. I. I just never made my point?? Originally?? Like?? The original post had no point! I failed to actually make the conclusion that the entire post was written to deliver. So I rewrote it completely and I assure you, it's a much better read now.
Make up your mind already!