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Re: Who had the first black page?
In article <61gi91$gef$1@elna.ethz.ch>,
Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat <GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH> wrote:
>In <19971008154800.LAA23025@ladder02.news.aol.com> mikew50@aol.com writes:
>
>> The GS is supposed to be smaller, but according to Apple marketting, never
>> lowercase. Some of the programmers never got that message. :)
>
>I don't want to start a nitpicking contest :-), but I think it was the other
>way around. The "Acid Test" pamphlet I once received from an angry Apple
>employee (just kidding) said that the "GS" is uppercase if it can be written a
>few points smaller than the rest. It has to be lowercase if there's only one
>font size available.
>
>BTW, isn't the startup text on a IIgs "Apple IIgs"?
Yeppers. I always say "IIgs" myself.
I was just thinking, there's a IIgs and an 840av on my desk. They have the
same setup - smaller capital letters for the "GS" and "AV". They pretty
much mean the same thing. That's kinda cool I think.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@frii.com