Of course, some of you must remember the flip side of this
compatability coin. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, there
were many systems that simply didn't meet the 'high-end' hardware
requirements for a game that featured (read required) 256(!)-color
graphics and a soundcard(!)... lol! After we scraped past the super-
distributed PC and PC2 to the 286, VGA was still pretty rare. My
first 'enabled' system was one of the ibm microchannels. Back then, it
wasn't a struggle to get the system to agree from the software-side of
things ('cept for the soundcard)... a Real DOS box.