Intel Microprocessor Interview Question:

Briefly mention the differences between VGA and CGA graphics?

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The characteristics of CGA are as follows:

- The CGA or the Color/Graphics adapter was the first color graphics card for IBM pc`s.

- It contain 16KB of video memory and used an Rca jack to connect to a Tv or monitor ( NTSC compatible).

- It could also be connected to a RBGI interface CRT monitor (4-bit).

The characteristics of VGA graphics are as follows:

- The VGA or the video graphics array was a hardware introduced with the IMB PS/2 computers.

- It has been widely adopted world over and now actually implies the analog computer display standard.

- Eventually after much modifications by other manufacturers the VGA was superseded by SVGA.
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