On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:23:06 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 08/11/2015 at 03:13 PM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> said: > >>since obviously you can't simulate overstrike on a display. > >Not obvious and not true, but the 3270 display stream doesn't support >it. However, it does support high intensity, which is a reasonable >substitute. > Depends. For highlighting, yes. Not for synthesizing characters as APL did with a Selectric typewriter.
And think of the line printer halftone posters that programmers (used to) hang on their office walls. (Does anyone have a sample?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
