Re: 8-bit Apple models

[joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)]

In article <1993Mar19.172123.10876@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:
>From article <89887@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a SIMMS,WILLIAM SHELDON):
>
>> 
>> By the way, when I first got a mouse for my Apple //e I was confused
>> about why the Mousepaint program had those weird window titlebars and
>> close boxes - Different from the "normal" Mac interface. It wasn't until
>> a few years later that I figured out that Mousepaint was modeled after
>> the Lisa...
>> 
>I don't have the sources to prove it, but I suspect Mousepaint (IIe) was 
>developed as the prototype for the LISA.  I recall that early Quickdraw
>development was done on a II platform.  I would imagine that a mouse like
>device was being used, and a paint program would be a likely first program
>testing Quickdraw.  And I think a paint program was one of the first programs
>available for the Lisa.  Of course, Mousepaint for the IIe could have been
>a complete rewrite of the earlier work.  Or else just released _late_ :)
>
>No flames please.  I like to fantasize my own version of history.  The above
>isn't too far off though.  I don't have the dates here, but I think the
>Desktop toolkits (beta) software for the IIe predates the LISA release.
> 
>  --Steven Nelson            steven-nelson@uiowa.edu
>
>



A couple of months ago, I met the author of MousePaint (Bill Budge). He'd
been given an early prototype of the macintosh, in fact, his came with a
5.25" disk drive. At that time, he was working at Apple, and said that he
based MousePaint on MacPaint.

Joe Kohn