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Re: Errors in a Microsoft Propaganda Book



On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:23:33 -0700, David Schmenk wrote
(in article <V9ZWh.11967$YL5.2774@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>):

> I was surprised to see the graphics routines used for the Apple Graphics 
> Tablet labeled Quickdraw too.  It seems to be quite the name for 
> anything graphics related at Apple during that time.  I'm not sure who 
> was responsible for that code.  Bill Atkinson has been one of the few 
> software "heroes" of mine.  More for his work on Apple Pascal and the 
> Turtle Graphics implementation than for Lisa/Mac.  Probably because that 
> was the first *real* language/system I learned.

Also the name of a 60's popular prime time cartoon show.