[rescue] NCD 88K Xterminal video adapter

[Richard]

In article <43d14aed-7cd6-61b1-226c-2b216dc19140 at tanabi.org>,
    Stephen Conley via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> writes:

> To support fancy fonts, you basically have to make images out of the 
> fonts themselves.

Yes, but font selection and rendering was all handled in the display
(server), not rasterized in the client and transmitted over the wire
to the server.

I don't know what has happened in the X/linux world to reverse this
situation, but X11 was designed to have the fonts live on the server,
not on the client.
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