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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Bobbing for Apples (was How to generate the complete character set)
- Message-ID: <1052@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 01:07:05 GMT
- References: <970@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com
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- Eric P. Scott writes
-
- > Now examine the file /NextLibrary/Fonts/Symbol.font/Symbol:
- > |dup 238 /braceleftbt put
- > |dup 239 /braceex put
- > |% dup 240 /apple put
- > |dup 241 /angleright put
- >
- > Hey! Something's commented out!
-
- Heh heh. The Apple logo was in the Symbol font on the original
- LaserWriters. This is not gospel, but my recollection was that when
- Digital signed up with Adobe, their QA people noticed the Apple logo
- in there and requested that it NOT be in their printers, thank you
- very much. Can't blame them. I believe the solution was to comment
- it out in non-Apple printers, although there have been so many printers
- made since then, it's hard to know what was done in each one. Maybe
- it's commented out in Apple printers nowadays, too.
-
- Of course, "commented out" probably means not in ROM at all in a printer,
- since they probably execute the font into ROM when building it.
-
- In any case, despite the obvious implications, it wasn't NeXT that got
- rid of the Apple logo :-)
-
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- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
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