This reminds me of a story. It's been quite a while, it's from a friend, and my memory is definitely not fresh, but it goes something like this: It's 1989 or s

This reminds me of a story. It's been quite a while, it's from a friend, and my memory is definitely not fresh, but it goes something like this: It's 1989 or so, and Apple has an internal project doing outline fonts (led by Sampo Kaasila); fonts like these are the current publishing industry rocket science. John Scully drops by the group one day, sees how the they are progressing, and gets a demo. After the meeting, very soon after, he calls up the internal investment folks at Apple and tells them to sell all of Apple's stock in Adobe. (There are some things that don't quite fit, but I still like the story). One thing I did see personally see was an outline font package, written in C, that had about a 2K footprint in our project's ROM and worked really, really well, even on a 13 Mhz 68000 box with minimal memory. The guy who wrote that has been serially responsible for quite a few graphics library implementations over the last 30-40 years (and it's not all he does).