From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 10:05:56 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011081002260.48674@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
> > My memory is hazy, but I thought that the daisy wheel printers I knew
> > (Qume Sprint\5) also had proportional spacing.
>
> I never used that brand. [...]
The daisywheel that I used (Fujitsu?) definitely was fixed-width
(Courier); I used it a lot with WordStar on CP/M.
-- Dave
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