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While Gridmaster may have been a simple program, the task that it would be used to accomplish—creating digital bitmaps of thousands of Chinese characters—posed major design challenges. Creating the font for Sinotype III took far longer than programming the computer itself. https://t.co/E41gr2OYdn — PolitiTweet.org

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At the time, there were no personal computers being built in China. So to make a “Chinese” PC, Rosenblum’s team was reprogramming an Apple II to operate in Chinese. — PolitiTweet.org

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For each Chinese character, designers had to make 256 separate decisions. Multiplied across thousands of characters, this amounted to literally hundreds of thousands of decisions in a development process that took more than two years to complete. https://t.co/HZ0HTdUYI1 — PolitiTweet.org

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