Re: Errors in a Microsoft Propaganda Book

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-z87-this>]

  To: Charlie Springer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:39:39 -0700, Charlie Springer wrote:

> 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.

"An doooooon you forgit it!"  :-)
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