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Article #1139Re: 132 col telecomm software?
From: Che' Flamingo
Date: Fri, 22 May 1987 05:27
Date: Fri, 22 May 1987 05:27
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prindle@nadc.arpa writes: > [...] Challenge: a 2 pixel wide font! >Frank Prindle >Prindle@NADC.arpa Hm... well, assuming true black and white, i.e. 1 bit per pixel, and 96 displayable ASCII characters (decimal 32 through decimal 127), I conclude that a character in your font will have to be 24 pixels high simply to allow for enough distinct patterns (forget about attaractiveness, or even similarity to normal letters (except SPACE; that should look just about the same :-) ). Allow one row of pixels per line to separate rows of characters; this turns out to be "free". Result: a 640x400 display window will only accept 16 rows of characters. Of course, with one pixel of horizontal separation, you can still get 213 characters per row. Somehow, I don't think this is the real frontier of display technology...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: 132 col telecomm software? Message-ID: <4293@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-May-87 01:27:58 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.4293 Posted: Fri May 22 01:27:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 16:20:40 EDT References: <7450@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo) Organization: Camo Flamingo Liberation Affront Lines: 16