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Re: Using cga monitor on IIGs
In article <4h0icm$1k8@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> CGA? As in the really atrocious color sets that IBM bundled with
> their computers for the first few years of the PC? It's been
> supplanted by EGA and now [S]VGA, which are far more powerful. But, to
> answer your question, the GS puts out analog video, while C/E/VGA are
> digital RGB.
CGA and EGA are digital (4 bit and 6 bit respectively), VGA and SVGA
are analog.
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