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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by ancarda on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:38AM (#6094936)
>Apple had an almost identical drawing program in the early MacOS version:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint

Because Bill Gates wrote MacPaint. When Windows was in development, he likely wrote MSPaint, or at-least got a developer to make it similar.

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by stiff on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:41AM (#6094943)
What? The very wikipedia page you're quoting says:

The original MacPaint was developed by Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's original Macintosh development team.

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by ancarda on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:47AM (#6095087)
Ah, my mistake. I could have sworn I had read something about Bill Gates developing for MacPaint. I think it was to do with editing text that had been placed on an image.
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