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From: douglas-craig@cs.yale.edu (Craig C. Douglas)
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Subject: Re: Advanced Experimental Display
Keywords: AED, IBM PC RT, Advanced Experimental Display
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Date: 12 Apr 91 17:11:25 GMT
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Jacob M. Parnas writes
>> What do you mean?  IBM already had its "Advanced" display out!!!  Who
>> wouldn't be overjoyed with the IBM 6153?  She's a beauty!  Compact,
>> almost 1/4 of a megapel.  Not the type of display that will confuse you 
>> you with an overwelming amount of information.

Jacob clearly never saw the IBM Research internal fonts that a fellow
department member of his generated so that you could read "clearly"
all 70 lines worth of text on a screen at a time.  Mind you, this is a
screen which seemed to be only be 9" across the diagonal (but was slightly
bigger in reality).  I think the characters were 6 pixels high.  A magnifying glass was considered quite handy for these fonts.  Rebooting the machine to
get rid of them was considered even handier.

Jacob, you don't happen to still have one of gems at home, do you?

Craig Douglas
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