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- From: nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov (Jan A. Nijhuis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: RE: DogCow, Claris & Apple Trivia, was something else (?)
- Message-ID: <143509@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:59:19 GMT
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- Organization: Lawrence Laboratory Livermore, CA
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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: DogCow - where it comes from (was: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks)
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- >By the way...
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- >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.
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- >(DON'T followup any Mac vs. PC stuff to the comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- >group. I've set followup to confine it to where it started. This
- >one is x-posted because we were discussing DogCow a while ago).
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- BTW some more...
- The Dog-Cow, Claris (yes that is its name) makes the sound "Moof".
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- The "Moof", of course, if computer folklore. As cute as Apple is with
- its built in sound chip no one thought to add the sound when selecting
- page orientation.
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- Unfortunately, someone at Apple, in their infinite wisdom, killed
- Claris in favor of an outline figure of a people to describe page
- orientation. I think this happend around release 6.0.5 of the Mac OS.
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- --
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- Jan A. Nijhuis,
- nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov
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- Two wrongs do not make a right, but three will get you back on the freeway.
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