COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS A VIDEO CARD
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Microsoft
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Intel
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IBM
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Detailed explanation-1: -IBM 8514 is a graphics card manufactured by IBM and introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of personal computers in 1987. It supports a display resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels with 256 colors at 43.5 Hz (interlaced), or 640 × 480 at 60 Hz (non-interlaced).
Detailed explanation-2: -IBM developed their first two video cards, the MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter) and CGA (Color Graphics Adapter), in 1981. The MDA had 4 KB of video memory and the CGA had 16 KB of video memory. Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. developed the HGC (Hercules Graphics Card), their answer to IBM’s video cards.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1987, the IBM 8514 graphics system was released as one of the first video cards for IBM PC compatibles to implement fixed-function 2D primitives in electronic hardware.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nvidia was the very first company to bring GPUs into the world in 1999. The first GPU in history was known as the Geforce 256.