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From: roberts@claris.com (Dave Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Death of MacPaint
Summary: It's not dead yet!
Message-ID: <9771@claris.com>
Date: 11 Apr 89 15:59:11 GMT
References: <6689@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <6689@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
> According to the May issue of MacUser, MacPaint is in its last version.
> MacPaint's features are to be included in the next version of MacDraw, which
> should be announced later this year.  Yogen Dalal, Claris' vice president of
> product development, is the person credited with making this statement.

On the contrary, MacPaint is very much alive! The folks from MacUser seem to
have misinterpreted Yogen's remarks at the Claris press conference at MacWorld.
Yogen said that Claris would eventually include bitmap technology in future
versions of MacDraw, but didn't specify when.  While some may assume this is
the demise of MacPaint, it certainly isn't true.  Claris sees the need for
an entry-level bitmap graphics program continuing.

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