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Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74
As Apple employee No. 51, Atkinson transformed abstract computer science into intuitive visual experiences that millions would use daily: His QuickDraw graphics engine made the Macintosh interface possible; he introduced the wider world to bitmap editing with MacPaint; and HyperCard presaged hyperlinked elements of the World Wide Web by years.
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present ...
The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William ...
I woke this morning to the sad news that GUI pioneer Bill Atkinson has passed away at age 74 from cancer. He is most ...
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