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Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof!

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In article <1lfzeqm.1or5qvj1p6xrxaN%pdorange@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com>,
Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdorange@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com> wrote:

> Clarus turns 30.
> 
> It was in 1984 that the first Macintosh was introduce, delivered with
> the Cairo font. The "dingbats" fonts embed the z glyph resenting a
> strange and small animal : the DogCow.
> 
> This animal will have a long destiny inside Apple Labs, becoming the
> represntation of paper orientation inside the LaserWriter driver (for
> the first Laser printer in 1986).
> 
> The in 1987, she became the mascot of DTS team inside Apple tech labs.
> And was also the star of the WWDC 1988.
> 
> In 1991, the QuickTime developer team adopt here as the star in their
> forst QuickTime demo movies.

But she didn't get named until Apple formed the Claris corporation; the
name "Clarus" was a pun on "Claris" because most of Apple's developers
didn't think all too much about Claris corporation.

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Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! pdorange@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) - 2014-01-24 14:33 +0100
  Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! "Thomas R. Kettler" <tkettler@blownfuse.net> - 2014-01-24 09:16 -0500
    Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-24 08:54 -0800
      Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! "Thomas R. Kettler" <tkettler@blownfuse.net> - 2014-01-24 13:32 -0500
        Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-24 11:25 -0800
  Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-24 16:52 +0000
    Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! pdorange@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) - 2014-01-24 18:29 +0100
  Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-24 10:08 -0700
    Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! pdorange@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) - 2014-01-24 18:23 +0100
  Re: Clarus, the DogCow : 30 years of Moof! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-25 10:04 +1300

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