>> Even so, many things look very similar yet not quite right. (E.g., that
>> command prompt has a totally different aspect ratio.)
>>
> That aspect ratio issue is entirely dependent on font. You can change 
> that even in Windows, and, stupidly, some of the *sizes* are based on 
> .FON fonts, which have a completely different ration than the .TTF fonts 
> used for the other sizes. It doesn't scale them, or otherwise allow you 
> to set an arbitrary size, but is purely *fixed* to what ever internal 
> sizes exist in the font definition files. Got to be the stupidest, and 
> most annoying, aspect of the whole damn thing, especially if you planned 
> to have a "small" copy open, to look at something, but still have it 
> legible, while working in other, also open, windows, without having to 
> alt-tab between them. Hint - the small enough one for that, isn't 
> legible at all (well, unless maybe you had a display 40 inches wide..).

Yeah, it's no secret that the Windows command prompt thing isn't 
brilliant. (The number of people who complain about it not supporting 
ANSI escape sequences is staggering, for example.)

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