From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "David B"
 wrote:
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>Token reference: squatty fonts.

Fonts designed to be easily readable, especially the mono-spaced fonts.
Most of them came out of IBM's work on fonts for mainframe terminals. It's
less relevant today but back when screens were 720x400 or 640x480 or less
with 8x8 or 12x8 fonts, it mattered.

I've just gone through the screenshots for the various Windows versions on
that site. They don't fare any better, and in the VIO windows the fonts are
often worse than the OS/2 ones.

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