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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by clan on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:27AM (#23165753)
Genuinely curious!

Are you talking about AFP fonts[1]? In that case Sonoran Sans Serif[2]? Then you should probably be happy with Arial[3]. Fun story[4].

Or are you talking about a 3270 font? Then you should have a look at 3270font[5]

[1] https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...

[2] https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

[4] http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-hidden-truths/

[5] https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

...and then I saw the username i was responding to. I'll post anyway if you do not want to toot your own horn. Nice work!

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Re:Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs by rbanffy on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:01AM (#23165945)
Thank you. I'm partial for that certain modern sans-serif look, as you may have guessed.

BTW, that IBM bundles Arial with their mainframes is outrageous. If you are paying more than a million dollars for a machine, you should be getting proper Helvetica.

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