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Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by throwaway6436 on Sunday June 26, 2016 @09:37AM (#11980706)
The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text.

As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time.

He wasn't claiming he invented decent fonts on a computer.

Re:Typography of “Alien” (2014) by kqr on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:43AM (#11985760)
> The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text.

> As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time.

And to a point, this is still true. It's surprisingly hard to get good text rendering in terminal emulators on Windows and Linux. I still have to settle for "good enough" rather than the "stellar" I can get on my OS X machine.