The standard that came after CGA and before VGA. It allowed resolutions up to 640x350 pixels and 16 colors from a palette of 64. It was soon replaced by...
A video card permitting a computer to display according to an enhanced graphics array of parameters. See VGA.
A video adapter standard that provides medium-resolution text and graphics, introduced by IBM in 1984. EGA can display 16 colors at the same time from a choice of 64, with a horizontal resolution of 640 pixels and a vertical resolution of 350 pixels.
(EGA) An IBM PC display standard with a resolution of 640 x 350 pixels of 16 colors.
An adapter, such as the Enhanced Graphics Adapter, that provides high-resolution graphics, allowing the use of a color display for text processing as well as graphics applications.
A high resolution video card manufactured by IBM in 1984 that has more colours (16 from a palette of 64), and obeys the computer much faster than the older video cards, such as the colour/graphics adapter (CGA). EGA canrds can produce a resolution of 640 horizontal pixels by 350 vertical pixels, which is not quite as capable as the video graphics array (VGA) card with 640 by 480 resolution but better than the CGA card with 320 by 200 resolution.
an early IBM PC graphics display standard features 320 x 240 resolution and 16 colors (see EGA palette), commonly referred to as EGA. See CGA, VGA, SVGA