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| author | Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> | 2025-09-28 16:58:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> | 2025-09-28 16:58:56 +0200 |
| commit | 2f9e7d88612d9277828286a45b4956b9ecf78007 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f5f80d3a6689cac1dcd9095aee0376a18286d27 | |
| parent | eb5fe123973926daeb87f5050fdbc7c0c104a5eb (diff) | |
Determined the designer: Vaughan Pratt.
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@@ -349,6 +349,18 @@ The makes it likely it was acquired between 4.3BSD and [4.4BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.4BSD_and_descendants). +After asking in the usenet newsgroup comp.sys.sun.hardware&emdash;16 +years after Sun was acquired by Oracle people *do* lurk +there&emdash;some helpful soul reached out to me with links to [the +openboot gallant +font](https://github.com/openbios/openboot/blob/master/obp/pkg/termemu/gallant.fth) +and a PDF titled [From the Valley of Heart's Delight to the Silicon +Valley: A Study of Stanford University's Role in the +Transformation](http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/97/1579/CS-TR-97-1579.pdf) +by Carolyn Tajnai which in Appendix A reveals as the designer of the +Gallant font no one less than Stanford professor Vaughan Pratt, who also +designed the iconic Sun logo. + ## Remarks Codepoints 0 through 31 contain glyphs of the VT100 line-drawing |