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Re: RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us

From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject Re: RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us
Date 2025-06-08 13:09 +0200
Message-ID <mal9buFnjg7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <1022am3$3bjls$1@dont-email.me>

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Alan, 2025-06-07 23:24:

> I say this with no hyperbole: Bill Atkinson may well have been the best 
> computer programmer who ever lived. Without question, he’s on the short 
> list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us.
> 
> <https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip>
> 
> It doesn't matter which operating system you're using today.
> 
> The way it operates was influenced by him.

R.I.P.

<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Bill_Atkinson%E2%80%94creator_of_MacPaint%E2%80%94painted_in_MacPaint.jpg>


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