In contrast, CGA could only display four colors at 320-by-200 resolution, making for limited graphical experiences compared to other contemporary home PCs. And software makers began to support it, although slowly at first.Īmong its many tricks, EGA could display color text at a higher resolution than CGA (making for a better color word processing experience) and display 640-by-350, 640-by-200, and 320-by-200 graphics in 16 colors.
Like the IBM PC itself, third-party hardware vendors soon cloned EGA and began to expand upon it. Thirty-five years ago, IBM introduced a brand-new graphical standard for its IBM Personal Computer line: Enhanced Graphics Adapter, or EGA for short.Ĭoming on the heels of 1981's CGA (Color Graphics Adapter), which debuted with the IBM PC, 1984's EGA added enhanced resolution and color depth to IBM's graphical bag of tricks.
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