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The first GUI OS to include a scalable font manager with antialiasing as a standard feature was Acorn RISC OS 2, in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS

(This was also the OS with the first icon-based taskbar, before NeXTstep and its Dock; and also the first GUI where dragging a window to move it moved the window contents, not just a dotted outline. It's the original inspiration for the Windows 95 taskbar.)

There are a couple of pics of v2 here:

https://www.houseofmabel.com/personal/computers/riscos/

And a gallery of RISC OS 3:

http://toastytech.com/guis/riscos.html

parent lproven 2 years ago

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