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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.sys.pdp10 |
| Subject | Re: reprints of old AI memos (was Re: boxing all integers) |
| Date | 2026-09-01 17:36 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> writes:
> Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
>>> No, the fonts are pixelated at around 200 DPI.
>> I wonder where they came from?
The Hershey fonts were originally designed for computer output on microfilm
(COM) which entailed using a cathode ray tube to expose photographic
negatives. Dr. Hershey designed them as an alternative to the use of the
entirely mechanical Varityper. Since he was working in a US Navy lab, his work
was automatically in the public domain.
> I read a story somwhere, but I forgot the details and where I found it.
> It was something like getting a font catalog from a major foundry and
> digitizing it by hand.
>
> People also made their own; the AST file format is just a text file with
> pixel data, and on ITS there's FED (font "editor") to display a font on
> the 340 or a Knight TV. I think SAIL had something else, certaily so
> when TeX and Metafont were developed.
Knuth originally used the XGP to design his METAFONT program (version 1), then
moved on to an electrostatic printer and the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 for
version 2.
--
Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 17:52 -0300
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