Hey Nancy!   
      
   Dec 27 15:37 05, Nancy Backus wrote to Danny Ceppa:   
      
    NB> What I've needed the fonts for was making the overhead transparencies   
    NB> for illustrating talks/lectures or for putting up the words to songs    
    NB> for   
    NB> a group to sing, to get the letters large enough to read from a   
    NB> distance.   
      
   So why does the computer need to display that other then perhaps the basic   
   layout?  Shouldn't only the printer matter that it gets the right fonts?  Add   
   to this people who don't even use computers for that particular reason (ie no   
   printer or a printer just for printing straight text) and it seems to me that   
   the same computer can be useful for a wider variety of reasons, most of which   
   may not even need an overbloated OS, or worse, an overbloated OS wannabe.   
      
    NB> For regular work, straight ascii is certainly sufficient.    
    NB> :)   
      
   I have one font I use for everything on the computer.  It is a large one that   
   I can read without glasses or standing on my head squinting just right while   
   chanting 'Why, why, why ....'   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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