Display: IBM 8514 Display Standard
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A display standard supporting GPUs and blitters originally with resolutions up to 1024x768x256, higher resolutions later. XGA is a superset of 8514.
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"IBM 8514" is a display standard.
"IBM 8514/A" is IBM's video card that uses the IBM 8514 display standard.
"IBM 8514" is also the name of IBM's monitor that was optimized for the 8514/A video card. This is not the only monitor capable of displaying 8514 graphics and this monitor will use other video cards. Although, this exclusivity was claimed and attempted by IBM and technical issues may need to be overcome to achieve compatibility.
8514 is basically a software standard for using 2D accelerator hardware. The underlying code structure for 8514 is called "Adapter Interface" or "AI" for short could be listed alongside Direct2D, Quartz 2D, and Skia. 8514 provides a standard for rendering lines, fills, circles, scrolling, and sprite like graphics using blitters and processors on a video card rather than burdening the main CPU of the system. IBM was of course intending this to be used for business charts and CAD software, not for keeping up with competing home computers and consoles that had been using blitters for gaming for years. 8514 was a low(er-ish) cost alternative to high-end multiprocessor and multicoprocessor graphics workstations.
IBM/s hardware supported 640x480x256 and/or 1024x768x256. Each mode had a 18-bit RGB pallet. Other manufactures added 800x600 and 1280x1024 resolutions and full 16-bit and 24-bit color. Even if a given piece of '8514' hardware does not support additional modes, it can be coaxed into using them while maintaining accelerator benefits via software. For example, some cards with less than 1024x768x256 maximum will automagically work in that mode anyhow on GNU+Linux systems.
OS/2, Windows 2.1, 3.x, 95, XFree86 2.1.1 included support for the 8514 standard.
IBM's "Adapter Interface" is common to 8514 and Extended Graphics Array (XGA). Any card with implicit "XGA" support, also supports 8514 graphics for this reason. Note it is common to use "XGA" as a synonym for "1024x768" so one must read the fine print to determine if the true XGA standard is in use.
"IBM 8514/A" is IBM's video card that uses the IBM 8514 display standard.
"IBM 8514" is also the name of IBM's monitor that was optimized for the 8514/A video card. This is not the only monitor capable of displaying 8514 graphics and this monitor will use other video cards. Although, this exclusivity was claimed and attempted by IBM and technical issues may need to be overcome to achieve compatibility.
8514 is basically a software standard for using 2D accelerator hardware. The underlying code structure for 8514 is called "Adapter Interface" or "AI" for short could be listed alongside Direct2D, Quartz 2D, and Skia. 8514 provides a standard for rendering lines, fills, circles, scrolling, and sprite like graphics using blitters and processors on a video card rather than burdening the main CPU of the system. IBM was of course intending this to be used for business charts and CAD software, not for keeping up with competing home computers and consoles that had been using blitters for gaming for years. 8514 was a low(er-ish) cost alternative to high-end multiprocessor and multicoprocessor graphics workstations.
IBM/s hardware supported 640x480x256 and/or 1024x768x256. Each mode had a 18-bit RGB pallet. Other manufactures added 800x600 and 1280x1024 resolutions and full 16-bit and 24-bit color. Even if a given piece of '8514' hardware does not support additional modes, it can be coaxed into using them while maintaining accelerator benefits via software. For example, some cards with less than 1024x768x256 maximum will automagically work in that mode anyhow on GNU+Linux systems.
OS/2, Windows 2.1, 3.x, 95, XFree86 2.1.1 included support for the 8514 standard.
IBM's "Adapter Interface" is common to 8514 and Extended Graphics Array (XGA). Any card with implicit "XGA" support, also supports 8514 graphics for this reason. Note it is common to use "XGA" as a synonym for "1024x768" so one must read the fine print to determine if the true XGA standard is in use.
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