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An [Acronym] for E__x__tended __G__raphics __A__rray.
-The graphics hardware standard intended by [IBM] to supersede [VGA]. It adds resolutions up to 1024x768 pixels in 256 colours (
4:3 aspect ratio). However, it was built for the [MCA] bus which never caught on, and required special drivers to use as more than a plain [VGA] card, so [XGA] never became successful. The market was won over by a slew of incompatible [SVGA] designs instead.
+The graphics hardware standard intended by [IBM] to supersede [VGA]. It adds resolutions up to 1024x768 pixels in 256 colours,
4:3 aspect ratio). However, it was built for the [MCA] bus which never caught on, and required special drivers to use as more than a plain [VGA] card, so [XGA] never became successful. The market was won over by a slew of incompatible [SVGA] designs instead.
-The acronym was later recycled by [MarkeTroid]s to mean a maximum resolution support of 1024x768 pixels in [LCD] displays and computer video projectors. Technically, they have nothing to do with [XGA]. This was then bastardized further as maximum resolutions grew:
+----
-*
[WXGA
]
-*
[SXGA]
-*
[SXGA+]
-* [
UXGA]
+The acronym was later recycled by
[MarkeTroid
]s to mean a maximum resolution support of 1024x768 pixels in [LCD] displays and computer video projectors. Technically, they have nothing to do with [XGA]. This was then bastardized further as maximum resolutions grew. A list of seen acronyms, sorted by resolution:
+
+|v^ __
[Acronym]__ |v^ __Expansion__ ||^ __Pixel %%% resolution __ |v^ __Aspect %%% ratio__
+|> __Horiz__ |> __Vert__
+|< __XGA__ |< [XGA] (duh..) |> 1024 |> 768 |> 1.33:1
+|< __
SXGA__ |< Super [XGA
] |> 1280 |> 1024 |> 1.25:1
+|< __WXGA__ |< Wide
[XGA] |> 1366 |> 768 |> 1.78:1
+|< __
SXGA+__ |< Super [XGA
] Plus |> 1400 |> 1050 |> 1.33:1
+|< __
UXGA__ |< Ultra [XGA
] |> 1600 |> 1200 |> 1.33:1
+|< __WSXGA+__ |< Wide Super [XGA] Plus |> 1680 |> 1050 |> 1.60:1
+|< __QXGA__ |< Quad [XGA] |> 2048 |> 1536 |> 1.33:1
+|< __QSXGA__ |< Quad Super [XGA] |> 2560 |> 2048 |> 1.25:1
+|< __QUXGA__ |< Quad Ultra [XGA] |> 3200 |> 2400 |> 1.33:1
+|< __QUXGA-W__ |< Quad Ultra [XGA] Wide |> 3840 |> 2400 |> 1.60:1
+
+This list should not be considered exhaustive; you can combine "Super", "Wide", "Quad", "Ultra", and "Plus" in many more ways than shown. Some MarkeTroid somewhere is sooner or later bound to.
