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

    From Alan@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jun 8 07:24:19 2025
    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.

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  • From Hank Rogers@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jun 8 09:20:17 2025
    Alan wrote on 6/7/2025 4:24 PM:
    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.

    Especially the early apple Mac and Lisa computers. Hell, Steve Jobs
    himself hired him to work at apple.

    RIP. Will Apple hold a State funeral for Bill?


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  • From Arno Welzel@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Jun 8 21:09:57 2025
    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>


    --
    Arno Welzel
    https://arnowelzel.de

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