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> IBM PC hardware was misaligned (e.g. terrible graphics) In 1985 it was terrible for games due to no sprites, but business applications run on the Hercules gr
by bonzini 3y ago
> IBM PC hardware was misaligned (e.g. terrible graphics)
In 1985 it was terrible for games due to no sprites, but business applications run on the Hercules graphics card (monochrome but 720x348) or EGA, which had decent resolution and was way better than the competition for business applications. It had worse color resolution than say the Amiga, but by 1988 the VGA had fixed that as well.
- rini17 3y agoHow was it better for business? Text mode?There were plenty of terminals available at that time with better monochrome and color text modes and fonts, even line graphics support. It was about various attractive business software available for PC, not about EGA being superior somehow.