Video bios question?

[snidy]

I'm just wondering what CGA 40 or CGA 80 is in the video bios setup.

 

[bozo1]

ewwwwwwwwwww

The first color video cards used widely (at least in the PC world) were CGA. CGA40 would give you 40 characters across in a text screen, CGA80 gave you 80 characters.
Then came EGA, then VGA and so on.

 

[sohcrates]

CGA 40 or CGA 80 graphics adapters (limited to 40 and 80 lines, respectively) are old school settings for VGA

back when there were monochrome monitors and such