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| From | jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc, alt.sys.pdp11, alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn |
| Date | 2014-05-26 12:32 +0000 |
| Organization | "Have EDDT, will travel" |
| Message-ID | <PM0004FA4CD386E3B5@ac81427c.ipt.aol.com> (permalink) |
| References | <PM0004FA3AE709B5CA@aca24281.ipt.aol.com> <PM0004FA3AE709B5CA@aca24281.ipt.aol.com> <PM0004FA3AE709B5CA@aca24281.ipt.aol.com> <1ba9a5ftb8.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes: >>> >>> I tend to not consider non-programming fonts; most plain text doesn't >>> intermix "1" and "l" in such a way that they can't be easily distinguished. >>> >> There is a font which uses I for 1. It gets confusing even in novels. > > But really convenient for writing in Latin! :) think about a Route number. My first thought, after I finally figured out that the I was a one, was a Fortran manual and the poor kids who had to decypher it. /BAH
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Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2014-05-25 15:09 +0000
Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2014-05-25 15:21 -0600
Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2014-05-26 12:32 +0000
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