QuickDraw
QuickDraw (short: QD ) was the 2D screen description language of the Macintosh up to Mac OS 9.2.2 and part of the Macintosh construction kit . In macOS it has been replaced by Quartz , but is still available as part of the Carbon programming interface.
The first commercial QuickDraw library was written by Bill Atkinson for UCSD Pascal on the Apple II computer to enable fast raster graphics . Atkinson later worked on QuickDraw on the Apple Lisa computer. Finally, QuickDraw was used for the Macintosh , and Andy Hertzfeld contributed to this.
The theoretical origin seems to be in the doctoral thesis of Bill Atkinson's Professor Jef Raskin : A Hardware-Independent Computer Drawing System Using List-Structured Modeling: The Quick-Draw Graphics System, Pennsylvania State University, 1967 .
With the publication of the MacPaint 1.3 source code in 2010 by the Computer History Museum , a historical version of the QuickDraw source code also became available.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code . In: Computer History Museum . July 20, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ Erik Hesseldahl: Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum . businessweek.com. July 20, 2010. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved on August 23, 2014.