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Old 07-06-2014, 07:23 AM   #802
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
I can proudly say that I have been using full 32-bit operating systems since 1994, where most other people only started doing so in 2001. I jumped to NT4 on that 80486 in 1996, and on my next computer I used NT4 first, and later Windows 2000. I completely skipped 95, 98 and ME (and 3.1 most of the time, as I ran OS/2), so my Windows experience has been much better then that of most other people.
Indeed.
You also missed all the drama around scalable fonts and the (highly educational) story of the birth of TrueType. An object lesson in strategic overeach in the tech world. (Almost as educational as the birth of Encarta.)

Doesn't sound like Adobe learned the lesson, though.
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