Thirty-five years ago, IBM introduced a brand-new graphical standard for its IBM Personal Computer line: Enhanced Graphics Adapter, or EGA for short. Coming on the heels of 1981's CGA (Color Graphics ...
When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA) (Fig. 1). The CGA AIB had 16 Kbytes of video ...