An improvement on the older CGA standard Supports a resolution of up to 640 pixels by 350 pixels at 16 colors in text-only mode or 640 x 200 at 2 colors in graphics mode The EGA standard was not fully backward-compatible with CGA and MDA
An Enhanced Graphics Adapter is an IBM video display adapter that can be used with color and enhanced color displays It also provides a monochrome graphics mode In color it can produce characters in a dot box of 8 by 14 pixels when used with an enhanced color display The EGA operates at a horizontal scan rate of 21 85 MHz, and can display 16 colors from a palette of 64 at a resolution of 640 by 350 pixels To be fully EGA compatible, a video display monitor must have a bandwidth of at least 16 MHz
Enhanced Graphics Adapter Graphics standard that allowed resolutions up to 640x350 pixels and 16 colors from a palette of 64 Superseded by VGA Related terms: Graphics, Pixel, VGA, Resolution
Abbreviation for enhanced graphics adapter; and obsolete type of computer monitor
Enhanced Graphics Adapter An improvement on the CGA Allowed the computer monitor to display more dots per screen permitting 400x300 pixels at 16 colours or 300x200 at 256 colours
Enhanced Graphics Adapter A high resolution video card that came out after CGA It was manufactured by IBM and could produce a resolution of 640 X 350 pixels and display 16 colors out of a palette of 64
Enhanced Graphics Adapter The runner-up to the CGA adapter could display more dots per screen, ca 400x300 pixels at 16 colours or 300x200 at 256 colours
(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) A computer graphics format that provides 16 colors (See VGA )
A type of PC video display adapter first introduced by IBM on September 10, 1984, that supports text and graphics Text is supported at a maximum resolution of 80x25 characters in 16 colors with a character box of 8x14 pixels Graphics is supported at a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 (from a palette of 64) colors The EGA outputs a TTL (digital) signal with a horizontal scanning frequency of 15 75, 18 432 or 21 85KHz, and supports TTL color or TTL monochrome displays
Enhanced Graphic Adapter for PCs, capable of displaying up to 16 colours, 640x350 graphics, or 80x43 text It can also be programmed to display 8x14 dot matrix use-defined characters Superseded by VGA (qv) (cf CGA, Hercules)
Enhanced Graphics Adapter A color monitor standard considerably higher in resolution than CGA, but lower than VGA Resolution was 640 X 350 All modern machines use VGA EGA is obsolete
Enhanced Graphics Adapter High resolution IBM graphics standard capable of displaying 640 x 350 pixels in 16 colors out of a palette of 64 colors