In article <Pine.SGI.3.96.970911180945.7231M-100000@irony.anim.dreamworks.com> you write:
> > I think MGA is a different (later) thing, though.
> > 
> 	MGA was the original IBM 'Monochome Graphics Adapator', which
> 	was text only. Hercules was a later third party card that
> 	supported the MGA text functionality, plus added graphics modes.

I thought the text-only thing was called MDA (Monochrome Display
Adaptor).  If it was text-only, what would the G stand for, if not
Graphics? And I though MGA *was* Hercules, or at least was the name the
Herc-cloners came up with to described their cards without using the
H-word.