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- From: tpp@cbnews.cb.att.com (thomas.p.pschar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: VGA: Let's get it right
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182348.21989@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:23:48 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: AT&T
- Lines: 33
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- In article 21490, brad@seas.gwu.edu (Bradford J. Crane) writes:
-
- > NOTE: An SVGA card is one which can display 1024x768 in 256 colors,
- > NOT 640x480!!!!! (640x480 is NOT SVGA, it is VGA!!!!!)
- >
- > AND 320x200 is NOT VGA, it is MCGA!!!
- >
- > I want to know who started to screw up the namimg system!!!
- >
- > From what I know:
- > 320x200 4 colors CGA
- > 320x200 256 colors MCGA (but is not capable of 640x400 in 16
- > colors!)
- > 640x350 16 colors EGA
- > 640x480 256 colors VGA NOT SVGA, NOT SVGA!!!!!!
- > 1024x768 256 colors SVGA SVGA SVGA,
- >
- > Now that I got the above straight, please reply to the above questions
- > at my E-mail address!!! (The above monitor descriptions are correct!)
- >
- > Brad
- > Computer God
-
- Well, "Computer God", you'd better get your act together if you want to live
- up to your name.
-
- 640x480x16 is VGA
- 640x480x256 is SVGA, as is:
- 800x600x16 (or 256), and
- 1024x768x16 (or 256)
-
- Tom Pschar
-
-