From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>, rob@bolabs.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:25:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181027162554.GA25738@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MaUyycL+hUaHo1fJ-Tzqs-gqfb0V=hdBgx7cALtCJk8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 11:53:20AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> At the time, the primary fonts kicking around (the Arpanet) were the Hershey
> Fonts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts> (which were vector
> fonts for CRTs).
Oh, man, do I remember them. While better than nothing, they left a lot
to be desired.
> That said, in those days my eye was not trained enough to see a many of the
> differences. But some production oriented folks (like Tim O'Reilly) used
> to complain that is the AT&T output (CAT4) was different from what the
> Imagen*** produced [which was the first large scale 'laser printer'
> replacement after the Bensen Varian (/dev/va) and other 'wet' plotters].
A friend of mine (cc-ed), used to really care about this stuff. I can
still remember him getting out an eye loup and looking at the apple laser
printer output. I can't remember if he liked it or was disappointed
but he cared.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-27 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-27 11:59 Doug McIlroy
2018-10-27 12:28 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 13:07 ` Milo Velimirovic
2018-10-27 13:56 ` Toby Thain
2018-10-27 15:19 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-10-27 15:53 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-27 16:25 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-10-27 19:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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2018-10-27 14:18 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-10-26 19:46 Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 19:57 ` Jim Capp
2018-10-26 20:41 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-26 21:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 21:58 ` Bakul Shah
2018-10-26 20:59 ` Warren Toomey
2018-10-27 17:15 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 17:41 ` Angelo Papenhoff
[not found] ` <20181026214308.GA20796@minnie.tuhs.org>
[not found] ` <20181026221153.GA19920@indra.papnet.eu>
2018-10-26 22:29 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 23:06 ` Warner Losh
2018-10-26 23:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-28 22:57 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-29 0:15 ` Clem cole
2018-11-01 17:21 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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