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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Message-ID: <6336@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 89 18:00:15 GMT
References: <2243@uokmax.UUCP> <27572@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <27572@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
(David Phillip Oster) writes:
>The ultimate in text drawing speed can be achieved by:
>(o) using a custom font, where each character is 7 pixels high, and, say,
>9 pixels tall. f there is one pixel of white space between characters,
>then each pixel fits in an 8-bit wide cell.

Sounds good, but when you do the math, the characters are too wide.
512 bits on the screen; 16 for a scroll bar; 8 for margins and borders;
512 - (16 + 8) = 488; 488 / 8 = 61 characters.  You need 80.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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