From: "Gary Britt" 

I used UltraVision back in the dos days and for many years into windows.  I
would love to have some of their fonts converted to a fon file format for
use in windowed dos apps now on 2K and XP.

Gary

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:444f807b$1{at}w3....
> >Way back, IBM spent a lot of time and money developing fixed-pitch fonts
> >that worked well on CRTs
>
> And I made a little thank-you every time I used a PC with MDA/Herc (while
> cursing the slow phosphor).  UltraVision's font's were hand-tweaked by
> someone with great taste, and the sense to steal some of Blue's.
>
> In fairness to Microsoft, they've spent some on font people, and given us
> things like Georgia and Verdana, which make the Web more legible and lots
> prettier.  And Vista promises to finally fix the system-font-sizing
> conundrums that infest a pulldown near you.
>
> IBM's research has proved true in lots of ways.  Some grad student should
> probably do a thesis on my clients, "Applicability of the One-second
> Screen Refresh Rule to Trojan and Spyware Slowdowns in Personal Computer
> Use." That's when they call, right on the button.

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