On laptops around the turn of the century I see a lot of ATI stuff, Rage Mobility or something. Some better than others.
I think most laptops around the mid to late 90's running Windows 95 or 98 would have something that at least claims to have 3D acceleration. It might work like crap but it would work... and your video RAM options would probably be much less than comparable desktops.
For example around 1999 a good desktop card would have had 16 or 32 MB of RAM. I think a laptop from the same era would typically have 4 or 8 MB.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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