>Microsoft is implementing this as ClearType, boasting about it and  
claiming
>to have invented it, although it's an old invention by Apple, Xerox, and
>others (hmm, doesn't that sound familiar?).

Yes, there was a great little hardware/software enhancement to the  
Apple II+ that used the fact that the color coding actually also  
positioned the pixels differently and a software controlled  
video-mixer ( VSYNC to game-paddle input pin ) to achieve 560x192  
resolution.  Another somewhat more complicated hardware enhancement  
added another bit of memory to get 1120x192.  Bizarre but cool... :-)

Marcel