Windows defaults were minimal, so if you did not have a driver for your video card, you had to deal with the minimum Windows resolution. Regardless of the monitor’s technical specifications, you could choose one of the available image options thanks to the graphics card drivers. At the beginning there was CGA (color graphics adapter), then EGA (enhanced graphics adapter) and then VGA (video graphics array). IBM originally developed color monitor technology. Windows came with a set of some default options, and in order to change the resolution to a bigger or one with more colors, you had to install a special driver for the GPU. The available options were determined by the technical features of the GPU and were different from one manufacturer to another. What does 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2K, 4K and 8K mean from a resolution perspective?įrom the outset, the resolution has been described by the number of pixels arranged horizontally and vertically on a monitor.
