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From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Why, why, why?
Message-ID: <9172@claris.com>
Date: 24 Mar 89 01:18:39 GMT
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In the recent past, I said this:

> As far as the Mac is concerned, there have been two REAL hackers, IMHO:
> Andy Herzfeld and Bill Atkinson.  Atkinson, of course, is the author of 
> the original MacPaint, HyperCard, and most of B&W QuickDraw.  Herzfeld
> was around from the beginning of the Mac project.  He wrote Switcher, then
> Juggler (which later became MultiFinder).  He wrote an INIT called 
> QuikerGraf (sp?) which doubled the speed of the original 8-bit color
> QuickDraw on the Mac, after he left Apple.  Apple bought it from him and
> included it in later systems.

OOPS!!!  I've since been corrected on this.  Herzfeld wrote "Servant", NOT
"Juggler", and none of Servant went into MultiFinder.  He also wrote Switcher
after he left Apple.

My apologies for the misinformation.

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