Interesting, however it's also interesting to note that the lowly C64 could display 16 colors, albeit in only 320 x 240 resolution and in 1985 CBM released the Amiga 1000 which could display many more colors, up to 4096 in HAM mode.

I understand where the writer is coming from as the talk is only about x86 based machines, as though nobody but Intel has ever made a CPU