Re: 8-bit Apple models

[WULF@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer)]

In <1993Mar19.172123.10876@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:

> 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_ :)

Sounds interesting. I'm sure that the MousPaint 1.1 info box said something
like: based on MacPaint. I also believe the author was Bill Budge. I can err,
though.

- Wulf



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