Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ihuxy!vg55611
From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: *GA and TC
Message-ID: <2731@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 88 19:01:46 GMT
References: <422@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: vg55611@ihuxy.UUCP (55611-Gopal,V.P.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <422@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>. Is VGA backward compatible with EGA?
>
>. If not, does Turbo C support VGA?
>and
>. What of IBMs forthcoming ?GA graphics?

VGA is backwards compatible with EGA (i.e. supports EGA modes).  However,
I don't think this means that you can hook up an EGA only monitor to a 
VGA card (or a VGA monitor to an EGA card)  : not referring to the multi-
frequency monitors.

Cannot answer the other questions.


Venu P. Gopal
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