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Graphics adaptor

<hardware, graphics> (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display.

Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support.

These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected.

A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.

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