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MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-it-away-from-ben-stiller dept.

gbooch writes "The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is not only a museum of hardware but also a museum of software. Today, with the permission of Apple, the Museum has made available the original source code of MacPaint. MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, a member of the original Macintosh development team. Originally called MacSketch, he based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the Apple Lisa computer. Bill started work on the Macintosh version in early 1983. "

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  1. Re:Open, but not Free by fast+turtle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey Stupid: I've got a Ti-89a which uses the original Mac CPU. It also includes a bit more memory (not much more) then the original Mac did so something like this would be useful today to many folks using such a Calculator. That's right, there's a current real world use for such an app and I wonder how long before one of the Ti Hackers gets around to rewriting it to run on a Ti Calculator.

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  2. Re:Don't limit others to your imagination by silentcoder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah sure, because reinventing the wheel is comparable to reusing it.

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  3. Re:As goes Apple... by silentcoder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And ? your point is ?

    Does that mean we should allow people to guarantee the ABSENSE of value instead ?

    Falacy: does not follow.

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  4. Tosser by mdwh2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know what's more annoying than fanbois?

    So what does that make you? So sad that you hate people who talk about something you allegedly have no interest in? And come off it - you're not a fence sitter. You're foaming at the mouth with insults, because someone dared to make fun of your platform. Get a life.

    Get a fucking life, moron.

    Says the hateboy (it's spelled "boy" - look it up) who spends his life trolling anonymously on Slashdot.

    Just because we criticise a company, doesn't mean we "hate". The person who's sad is the one who's foaming at the mouth to post insults - and doesn't even have the decency to post with his login. And the anonymous cowards who mod me down and mod you up.

    Since the Apple fanaticism is so bad round here now that valid criticisms, even posted humorously, are modded down, whilst insults are modded up: Get a fucking life yourself, tosser.