Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ubvax!vsi1!apple!flaig
From: flaig@Apple.COM (Charles Flaig)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Gray-scale antialiasing (yes, it can work)
Keywords: anti-aliasing text
Message-ID: <193@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 20:54:18 GMT
References: <74013@sun.uucp> <148@internal.Apple.COM> <4763@mnetor.UUCP> <174@internal.Apple.COM> <19809@apple.Apple.COM> <515@voodoo.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <515@voodoo.UUCP> bhagwan@voodoo.UUCP (The Bhagwan) writes:
>
>  I can remember reading about this stuff in '80 and thinking "It won't be
>  long now".
>
>Still waiting,
>Al

A couple of years ago I was working on a project which involved an anti-aliased
bitmapped font (4 bit planes).  One of the resources we used was a patent by
Burroughs, I believed dated 1977, which dealt with antialiased text among
other things.  (Sorry my recollection is vague, but the patent is buried 
someplace where I can't find it now.)  So things like this surely should be
more common by now.  Unless their patent prevented others from doing so...?
(I saw pictures of *clear* 80-column text on an NTSC monitor!)

--Charles
  flaig@apple.com