"Isle Of The Dead" wrote:

Let me get this right.

You're saying that Microsoft has
spent millions of dollars in order
to re-create the mis-begotten
spacing of a thirty-year old
mechanical device that was
dependent on a *spinning ball*?

That's what you're saying here?


Not exactly, but you're close to what I'm saying. Visit your local
library, find some old computer magazines from the early 80's to early 90's,
and look at how many articles compare the results of various computer
printers first to the old typewriters and later to the printing presses of
the time. In the 80's, saying the output of your dot matrix printer was
nearly the same as a daisywheel typewriter (the popular typewriter of the
time) was the ideal. Later, with the intro of the laser printer, the
printing press appearance became the ultimate goal. Much of what we have
today is the result of those earlier efforts.

Stewart