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Re: DogCow - where it comes from (was: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks)

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From: Michael Peirce
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:55
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In article <BzABDB.DMB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> (comp.sys.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware), ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
> In article <1992Dec13.164642.4975@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
> >
> >>hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:
> 
> >>> Imagine that. MacDraw for Windows! I don't think it will happen
> >>> because Claris is a spinoff of Apple Computer.
> >
> >In the latest PC Magazine there is an add for FileMaker Pro for Windows.
> >So Claris is already porting stuff to Windows, cause that's where
> >the money is.
> 
> By the way...
> 
> I found out where the Dogcow comes from (download it from cica!). Go
> to any Mac and pull up the Page Setup. Click on _Options_. See the 
> DogCow? Its supposedly named "Claris" - supposedly the mascot for the 
> Mac Systems Software group.

Actually it's Clarus, not Claris.

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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: DogCow - where it comes from (was: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks)
Message-ID: <D2150035.lbon8x@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:55:21 GMT
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