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Article #4536Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
From: ni... Nick Rothwell
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 10:51
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 10:51
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In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com> len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes: >My home computer displays the English alphabet as a 7x7 dot matrix, >which I belive is typical of computers and terminals: > >I have tried to come up with a similar representation of the >Cyrillic alphabet, but it seems as though a great many characters >cannot be made. To tie together the Cyrillic article thread and the old computers/files article thread: The Terak Corp. 8510 which I had until a short while ago, has a load of font files dating from around 1977. One of them was Cyrillic. They were mapped to an 8 line by 9 pixel character grid, I think. Poor machine blew its power supply a few weeks ago. R.I.P. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. ni...@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: ni...@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters Message-ID: <370@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Sep 90 10:51:45 GMT References: <LENNOX.90Sep17213921@minilove.diag.stratus.com> Sender: nn...@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: ni...@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 23 Posted: Tue Sep 18 11:51:45 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit