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Reading this article makes me feel nostalgic: Remember the time when text rendering meant bitblt-ing from an 8x8 pixel matrix stored in ROM.
by anticristi 6y ago
Reading this article makes me feel nostalgic: Remember the time when text rendering meant bitblt-ing from an 8x8 pixel matrix stored in ROM.
- grenoire 6y ago"Dude, I can't believe that your TTY renders the 'a's counters at four pixels high whereas mine at six! They're both eight-by-twelve in the bitmap."
- jfk13 6y agoAnd font design meant uploading a new set of bitmaps to the video card (if you were lucky enough to have a machine where they weren't strictly limited to what was provided in ROM). The first non-Latin font editor, text processing and typesetting software I worked on ran on just such systems. Yes, those were very different times!