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Eric P. Scott writes

> Now examine the file /NextLibrary/Fonts/Symbol.font/Symbol:
> |dup 238 /braceleftbt put
> |dup 239 /braceex put
> |% dup 240 /apple put
> |dup 241 /angleright put
> 
> Hey!  Something's commented out!

Heh heh.  The Apple logo was in the Symbol font on the original
LaserWriters.  This is not gospel, but my recollection was that when
Digital signed up with Adobe, their QA people noticed the Apple logo
in there and requested that it NOT be in their printers, thank you
very much.  Can't blame them.  I believe the solution was to comment
it out in non-Apple printers, although there have been so many printers
made since then, it's hard to know what was done in each one.  Maybe
it's commented out in Apple printers nowadays, too.

Of course, "commented out" probably means not in ROM at all in a printer,
since they probably execute the font into ROM when building it.

In any case, despite the obvious implications, it wasn't NeXT that got
rid of the Apple logo :-)

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