From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu
Subject: Seven reasons why Plan 9 is not my favorite operating system.
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 13:01:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19940209180114.SPAN55pW8KvbvJ8p2cEAps1Cs0y4drssi-4vt7YH9_c@z> (raw)
Reason 1: bitmap fonts. They have two disadvantages. First, they
only come in a few inflexible sizes. I miss NeWS, where fonts were
nice scalable postscript objects. Second, they are hard to read.
(Especially on a 640x480 screen!) If pixmaps were used, the glyphs
could be anti-aliased, with grey pixels smoothing out the jaggies. To
see what a big difference this makes in apparent resolution, look at
the output of a recent version of xdvi. It's not a frill, but a
qualitative improvement in, well, quality.
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