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Acronym for Video Graphics Array.

An IBM graphics hardware standard used in PCs 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).

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.