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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.