"Why can't they just say how many pixels the bloody thing's got?"

[unixronin]

Ever get lost in the alphabet soup of UXGA, WXGA, WSGXA+, WUXGA and wonder WTF they all actually mean?

Here's a handy key (along with an explanation of how we got into this mess).

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Huh. I missed that. I guess my brain registered "CGA" and recoiled in horror. It's misleading though — CGA has a 4:3 screen, it just has horribly non-square pixels. And then there's the high-definition mode ... Ugh. Let's just leave CGA quietly dead.