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The fonts burned into CGA, EGA, and VGA bioses all had serifs. The default UI fonts on many X Window systems UIs, including CDE, were serif fonts. The 80-colu
by stonogo 5y ago
The fonts burned into CGA, EGA, and VGA bioses all had serifs. The default UI fonts on many X Window systems UIs, including CDE, were serif fonts. The 80-column card in the Apple IIe had a serif font.
There was really only the first-generation home computer (and arguably first-gen PDAs) that widely shipped strictly sans-serif fonts; a blip in the history of personal computing.
- jillesvangurp 5y agoSteve Jobs was into typography. Embracing Helvetica for the Macintosh was not an accident in the early eighties. Later pcs were about wysiwyg. Which given the primary medium was still paper for dtp and wordprocessing software, meant serif fonts.