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They're really not - the IBM PC set is double-pixel wide and with quite different choices for many of the letters because the MSX is 5x7 while IBM PC used 8x14
by damieng 10y ago
They're really not - the IBM PC set is double-pixel wide and with quite different choices for many of the letters because the MSX is 5x7 while IBM PC used 8x14 (EGA) or 8x16 (VGA).
It is far more likely they took inspiration from the Apple ][ font and tried to add serifs in the limited space.
CP437 is the codepage - chars outside the ASCII range of 0-127. The font you are thinking of is probably the BIOS font from either the IBM EGA or VGA adapter.
- thristian 10y agoBy "based on" I meant the character set, not the actual glyph designs, I absolutely agree the MSX characters don't look much like the PC ones. ...but the character sets match surprisingly well; outside the basic ASCII range they have mostly the same accented and Greek characters in the same places, many of the same glyphs for control codes, and some of the symbols right at the end. The box-drawing characters are very different, and the MSX has more accented characters in total, but nothing that would raise eyebrows in a European MS-DOS code-page. (off-topic: thank you very much for Envy Code R, it's one of my favourite monospaced typefaces ever!)
- damieng 10y agoOops, now your comment makes total sense including the CP437 remark, sorry! Glad you enjoy Envy Code R :)