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From: hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Henning Spruth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Does VGA monitor work with CGA card?
Keywords: PC VGA CGA
Message-ID: <hns.658400390@renoir>
Date: 12 Nov 90 08:59:50 GMT
Sender: news@tumuc.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
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Hi, netters!

A friend of mine is considering upgrading his CGA adapter to a
VGA card. He wants to buy a cheap, no-multisync b/w VGA monitor.
Besides his XT, he has an old Bondwell laptop which uses CGA, too.

Question: will he be able to junk his old CGA monitor entirely and use
	  the VGA monitor with the laptop?

As far as I know, a VGA card & monitor should be able to display
all CGA and EGA video modes as well. Does this imply that a garden
variety VGA monitor can handle the video signal generated by the
CGA card?