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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gro...
Subject: Seven reasons why Plan 9 is not my favorite operating system.
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 13:01:14 -0500

Reason 1:  bitmap fonts.  They have two disadvantages.  First, they
only come in a few inflexible sizes.  I miss NeWS, where fonts were
nice scalable postscript objects. Second, they are hard to read.
(Especially on a 640x480 screen!) If pixmaps were used, the glyphs
could be anti-aliased, with grey pixels smoothing out the jaggies.  To
see what a big difference this makes in apparent resolution, look at
the output of a recent version of xdvi.  It's not a frill, but a
qualitative improvement in, well, quality.