22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
11:44 p.m.
On 22 Jan 2010 at 22:55, Marcin Wichary wrote:
You?re correct. I should have clarified that I meant
the window
chrome/UI, not the content fonts in applications. Mac OS?s and other
GUIs default system fonts were typically proportional, which helped
them distance themselves from text-based UIs. Windows sat
uncomfortably in the middle until v3. :)
Something I've wondered about is if there were *any* character-mode
(text) display cards produced with proportional spacing capability.
Wasn't NEC supposed to have a display chip to do that? (not the
7220).
Hercules made a card that could handle various font widths and
heights, but it was still a monospaced display.
Creating and maintaining a graphic display for text requires more
work than a text display, so there might have been some motivation.
Cheers,
Chuck