Super VGA: A common name for new PC graphics cards which are compatible with original VGA card but provide better resolutions and more colors. There is no standard how the hardware for those higher resolution graphics modes should be implemented which means that that the software and/or operating system must have graphics card specific driver to be able to use those higher resolutions. For DOS software VESA VGA BIOS Extension is a standard software interface for accessing those higher resolutions.

 

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