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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: 132 col telecomm software?
Message-ID: <4345@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 17:25:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 17:25:10 1987
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Che' Flamingo)
Organization: Camo Flamingo Liberation Affront
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cds@atelabs.UUCP (David Shanks) points out:
-I blather:
->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.

Well, I know how I came up with that, but I'm not ABOUT to admit it now!  It
was past my bedtime when I scribbled this, and my brain had already retired.
Thanks for a little rationality, David.  However, this doesn't mean I want to
read a 1 by 7 font, or even 2 by 24...