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From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1989 15:04

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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 17-Aug-89 Re: Type sample
> text. Anders Thulin@helios.pro (1362)


> That particular spelling is probably from Donald Knuth's The METAFONT
> Book, or possibly his book on the Computer Modern Roman typefaces.  If
> my memory serves me right, he also uses it in lower case.

Variations on the word Hamburg are in use as font samples for at least
50 year. And no, I don't know who & why it started.

	jaap

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