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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by w0utert on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:36AM (#6094931)
You could argue MS Paint was about as intuitive as the geoPaint application in GEOS on the C64 [1], which has an almost identical feature set and user interface as MS Paint.

I don't really understand why anyone in their right mind would have anything positive to say about MS Paint except that it is ubiquitous, and they remember having fun with it when they were still a kid. It's really a pretty lousy program, more like what you expect from a code sample shipped with a compiler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system%...

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by vidarh on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:11AM (#6095148)
"Every" 8-bit home computer had similar applications, and much earlier than GEOS too, though GEOS is a good counter-example because its windowed and so much more directly comparable.
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