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by ThomasBHickey 1615 days ago
Those were good times. I got a copy of the SAIL Metafont and managed to port it to Tandem's TAL language (rather like BLISS, but stack oriented on a 16/32-bit machine). There was some serious bit-twiddling in the code using every bit of every 36-bit word! Working with TeX (thankfully the Pascal version), we spent lots of time doing DVI implementations for various devices. Are virtual fonts still a thing?