These industry standards define the number of colors that can be displayed at a given resolution. A monitor with VGA resolution can display a maximum of 16 colors at a resolution of 640x480. This is adequate for a basic word processing machine, but will not display graphics or colorful images well.
Monochrome monitors can handle the full range of resolutions, but only in two colors.
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