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Famous Graphics Chips: IBM’s VGA

It is said about airplanes that the DC3 and 737 are the most popular planes ever built, and the 737, in particular, the best-selling airplane ever. The same could be said for the ubiquitous VGA, and its big brother the XGA. The VGA which can still be found buried in today’s modern GPUs and CPUs set the foundation for a ...

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It is said about airplanes that the DC3 and 737 are the most popular planes ever built, and the 737, in particular, the best-selling airplane ever. The same could be said for the ubiquitous VGA, and its big brother the XGA. The VGA which can still be found buried in today’s modern GPUs and CPUs set the foundation for a video standard, and an application programming standard. XGA expanded the video standard to a higher resolution, and with more performance. On April 2, 1987, when IBM rolled out the PS/2 line of personal computers, one of the hardware announcements was
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