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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 it
never caught
. 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]
