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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo)
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Subject: Re: 132 col telecomm software?
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 01:27:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 01:27:58 1987
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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...