MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @12:53AM 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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Probably infringes some 1987 mspaint patent by originalhack · 2010-07-20 01:14 · Score: 4, Funny

The problem with this is that Apple was so innovative that they can infringe patents for ideas that other large companies came up with years later.
Did anyone spot this one... by Linker3000 · 2010-07-20 01:52 · Score: 4, Funny

;
; Wrist Test - see if user is gripping left front
; edge of mouse as this will cause drawing
; performance to drop-off
;
FUNCTION WristTest : Boolean;

Uncanny eh!?

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