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From: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Using Fuzzy Fonts on TV
Message-ID: <8357@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 01:31:04 GMT
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Reply-To: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <25613@cornell.UUCP> houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Charles (Chuck) Houpt) writes:
>Has anybody experimented with using fuzzy fonts on standard
>TV sets? If so, how many columns of text can be displayed?
>Most computers that can use TV sets have only 40-60 columns
>of text (for example the Apple II or Commedore 64).
>Can fuzzy fonts give readable 80 column text?
> 
>Thanks -Chuck Houpt
>        houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu

Yes.  Many places.  A paper at the 1981 CMCCS conference by Andy Lippmann
(MIT Media Lab) discussed this.  There are many (many) others before and
since.

Note: "fuzzy" means antialiased?