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Those of us who had to endure CGA and EGA screens will understand. For me, legibility was all-important.
by FerretFred 3y ago
Those of us who had to endure CGA and EGA screens will understand. For me, legibility was all-important.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoHeh. I once spent two days trying to understand why Fortran didn't know what cosine was. I had overshot the "oh" key and hit the "zero" key. Trying to spot the difference between "COS" and "C0S", on those fonts, when I didn't even realize that's what I was looking for, was... non-trivial.
- kevindamm 3y agoA good font would keep the diagonal line inside a zero, even if it can only accommodate one or two pixels.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoIt did, as I recall. But it was only one or two pixels, plus one pixel at the corners. It wasn't much if you weren't looking for it. And I wasn't - it hadn't occurred to me as a failure mode.