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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Desktop pictures
Summary: Trivia time..
Message-ID: <12266@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 02:39:04 GMT
References: <4676@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <7679@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <7679@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> In article <4676@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu
> (G556871349ea) writes:
> I glommed the technique from an old INIT called "StartupScreen" or
> something.  (The author has never come forth.)  
>
	Just to clear up this bit of interesting 'Macintosh History', as
Tim points out the original 'BackDrop-like' program was called StartupScreen
and was written by none other than Darin Adler (now with Apple System Software)
as an interesting 'hack'.  Someone asked him why startup screens had to go away
and his answer was 'StartupScreen'.

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