I believe the problem was copyrighted fonts. Something which proprietary OS's just pay for to include in their OS's.
On Sunday 17 December 2000 14:32, Nick wrote: > On Sun 17 Dec, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: > > Am Sunday 17 December 2000 20:08 schrieb Rogerio Brito: > > > What is this AA support? I'm curious about it after these > > > comments. :-) Really. Please enlighten me. :-) > > > > > > > > > Thank you very much, Roger... > > > > Antialiasing smoothens fonts on your display, especially on higher > > resolutions. > > Mac's, Windows PC's and other OS'es are able to do it for a long time > > and XFree finally does it, too! > > My god - my Acorn RISC OS machine has been doing this perfectly well since > 1991 ! Why has it taken so long for X to catch up?
