An Acronym for Extended Graphics Array.
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.
