Re: Weird IIGS question

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 20000921182551.08272.00000043@ng-cm1.aol.com, Ludowick at
ludowick@aol.com wrote on 9/21/00 3:25 PM:

> Why is the default icon for "file type descriptor" files (I think type $42) a
> goat?

That's Clarus the Dogcow!  It's been the mascot of Apple engineers for
nearly fifteen years.  It's the letter "z" in the Cairo font from the
original Mac.  It's supposed to be a dog, but they discovered that at larger
sizes it looks like a weird dog/cow hybrid.  Hence the Dogcow.

There's a Macintosh Technical Note explaining the history of the Dogcow.  I
don't recall the number at the moment, but you should be able to find it on
Apple's developer site if you want to read it.


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