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echo: osdebate
to: Frank Haber
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-04-26 14:30:10
subject: Re: Vanity, Vanity, All Is...

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

In article , "Frank Haber"
 wrote:
>
>***the most legible and least tiring onscreen text I've ever used is, wait for
>it, 94x36 fixed-pitch sans UltraVision DOS.  Soft grey on white.  Beautiful,
>and f*ck those fontaholics.**

Another thing I like about OS/2. Way back, IBM spent a lot of time and
money developing fixed-pitch fonts that worked well on CRTs for use on MFTs
(MainFrame Terminals). They used the fruits of this work for OS/2's text
mode and VIO fonts. Anyone who's ever compared a Windows "DOS"
window with an OS/2 VIO window will know what I mean. I also have a suite
of font managers and fonts for DOS.

--
Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
 preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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