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Bill Atkinson, an innovative engineer Early Apple, dies in 74

Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson (on the right) cooperated closely to help realize life Macintosh. Image loan-apple

> The engineer, which is mostly Mac, Quickdraw, Macpain, Hypercard and much more, William D. “Bill” in Athinson, died on June 5th. At home, Portol, surrounded by his wife, two daughters, a stepson, a stepson, two brothers, four sisters and his dog Poppi, according to the message that the family placed on Facebook. From 1978 to 1990, the invention of Menubar, the selection of LASSO, the “marching ants”, as well as the detection of animation of the middle circle. developed by the first Macintosh, but was also a fundamental designer of the LISA (GUI) graphic user interface, novelty in computers at that time.It was fascinated by the Dithering concept, with the help of which computers using points are also attributed to it (along with tasks) for the invention of rounded compartments, rounded rectangles are still used in Apple’s system messages, in Apple's apple -based apple windows and other graphic elements.

Hypercard was the main statement of Atkinson to Glory. He built the Hypermedia approach to the creation of applications, which he once called the “set of software.” Hypercard technology debuted in 1987 and significantly opened the development of Macintosh software.