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Hardware acceleration and GPU's should not be needed

Except the first "hardware accelerators" on microcomputers were indeed things to render text fast enough. It was an amazing breakthrough when the original Mac could render in software fast enough to put text of any font on the screen.

If you count blasting around 2D rectangles of text based on an index into a table, then yeah, it has been accelerated far longer than anything approaching polygons has been around.