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Clifford Nelson wrote:
Many years ago I tried an IBM OS/2 operating system and the meaning of
some old email jumped right off of the screen into my brain. I was
embarrassed because I had misunderstood every message before. It was
because of the type font. IBM got what amounts to a copyright on the
entire printed English language when the only thing they made was
typewriters.

You should have tried a UK Acorn machine of the time. Anti aliased fonts -
which to this day look better than Ariel on a PC. Which is why I still use
this one for email and news despite having an all singing and dancing PC.
It's quite simply far less tiring to read.

Oh - you can't 'copyright' the English language. You can copyright a
dictionary.

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*Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.