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From: cds@atelabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: 132 col telecomm software?
Message-ID: <237@atelabs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 17:52:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: atelabs.237
Posted: Tue May 26 17:52:45 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 00:56:42 EDT
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Reply-To: cds@atelabs.UUCP (David Shanks)
Organization: AT&E Laboratories, Beaverton, OR
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In article <4293@iuvax.UUCP> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo) writes:
>prindle@nadc.arpa writes:
>>	[...]	Challenge: a 2 pixel wide font!
>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

I don't know how you came up with a 2 by 24 matrix as the minimum size for 96
distinct patterns (forgetting about attractiveness) but I think I could do a
lot better.  In fact I'll bet I can get 128 distinct patterns in a 1 by 7
matrix.  I'll bet you can too.
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Dave Shanks                     ..!tektronix!tessi!atelabs!cds
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