9 Jun
2025
9 Jun
'25
5:47 p.m.
> On Jun 9, 2025, at 7:35 PM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Bill Atkinson, a true early microcomputer pioneer, ca. 1984+, brought
> drawing on a computer screen and linking to external files a reality. He
On Mon, 9 Jun 2025, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Drawing on a computer screen goes back at least a
decade from that (PLATO had it back then) if not more.
Wasn't responsible for MacPaint?
That was not "first", or even early, but it was significant.
. . .and wasn't he heavily involved in creating HyperCard, and the Mac
pull-down menus?
I think that he was the one who said, "The Mac was supposed to have four
major software packages; but by the time that it was released, those had
become MacWrite, MacPaint, MacWrite, and MacPaint"
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