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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Typography
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:15:52 -0700
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:53:20 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> The original Apple Mac was managing that on a CPU that ran at a
> nominal 8MHz clock speed.

Though that was static bitmap fonts. Still, pervasive realtime font
rendering has been a thing for *ages.*