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Alan wrote on 6/7/2025 4:24 PM:
> I say this with no hyperbole: Bill Atkinson may well have been the best
> computer programmer who ever lived. Without question, he???s on the
> short list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us.
>
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip>
>
> It doesn`t matter which operating system you`re using today.
>
> The way it operates was influenced by him.
Especially the early apple Mac and Lisa computers. Hell, Steve Jobs
himself hired him to work at apple.
RIP. Will Apple hold a State funeral for Bill?
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