Re: Weird IIGS question

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <20000921185521.26692.00000110@ng-ch1.aol.com>,
Cturley2 <cturley2@aol.com> wrote:
}ludowick@aol.com wrote:
}
}<<This has bothered me for years.
}Why is the default icon for "file type descriptor" files (I think type $42) a
}goat? Black and white "holstein-type-blotched" goat.  Why?  Check your icon
}folder, and see.  It's a weird little goat.  Comes right out of nowhere.>>
}
}Actually I think it's a dogcow or a cowdog - depending on how you want to look
}at it.  :)  A cute little concept combo-animal that came from the minds of the
}folks at Apple Computer.  

I suspect the drawing came first and the concept came later, but Clarus
(the dogcow) isn't saying.  I _think_ one of the dogcow tech notes
(yes, there are several -- Mac Tech Note 31 is one) gives the original
artist's identity.

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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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