[herf]

Shadow-mask CRTs were the best ever for low-res antialiased text. It looked great for the low resolutions of the time. (Even trinitron wasn't as good.)

You were guaranteed a near-gaussian point in the output, and from a signal-processing POV, this makes filtering and display just really beautiful and easy to do right. For instance, you could do a totally convincing subpixel translation with no visible artifacts.

[pixelpoet]

omg, it's the stereopsis guy! I learnt so much from your old gfxcoding articles, thanks very much for those.