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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Pin Printers
- Message-ID: <id.SRNW.8YH@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1993Jan11.053558.22707@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:23:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.053558.22707@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ktatenen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Tateneni) writes:
- > I'm at a loss here. I think the 9 pins were probably the minimum
- > needed to produce decent quality text. But why 24 rather than 18 or 20
- > or even 22?
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- I always assumed it's because 24 bits is 3 bytes.
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