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[Acronym] for __V__ideo __G__raphics __A__rray.
-An [IBM] graphics hardware standard used in [PC]s for many years. It was developed as the successor to [EGA] and [CGA] and delivers resolutions up to 640x480 in 16 colours and up to 320x200 in 256 colours, chosen from a palette of 262,144 shades (6 bit per [RGB] component).
+An [IBM] graphics hardware standard used in [PC]s for many years. It was developed as the successor to [EGA] and [CGA] and delivers resolutions up to 640x480 in 16 colours (aspect ratio 4:3)
and up to 320x200 in 256 colours (aspect ratio 8:5)
, chosen from a palette of 262,144 shades (6 bit per [RGB] component).
[IBM] developed [XGA] as its successor, but other [Proprietary] extensions collectively referred to as [SVGA] dominated the market instead. Eventually the [VBE] standard emerged to alleviate the need for applications to support each [SVGA] chip separately.
