A famous Apple engineer who played an important role in developing modern -day computing died. According to a Facebook post developed by his family on June 5, Bill Attockinson, who was part of Apple’s original Macentosh Development Team, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74.
Their contributions to Apple and Macentosh Personal Computer are still widely used today, including basic UI elements such as menu bars, double -click and selection lasu. However, Attockinson’s work is much deeper than that, as he is partially responsible for the basic design language that affected Apple’s early days. Its legacy includes making Mac paint, an application that showed the world that the graphics -based system looks like a text -based system, and to develop a Quick Draw, a graphics toolbox that uses Macentosh and Lisa computers. To make computers more user -friendly, Attockson also designed the hypercard, an Apple application that introduced the hyper text to everyday users not only to programmers. Tim Cook, while posting on the X, paid tribute to Attockinson, that it was a “real vision whose creativity, heart and earth -working work on the Mac would always impress us.”
Beyond Apple, Attockson was one of the three co -founders for a software and electronics company General Magic, who provided products to Motorola and Sony in the 90s. Later, he worked with Nafisanta in 2007, a startup focused on artificial intelligence. Attockinson was also an experienced nature photographer, published a book named Inside the stone It highlights polished and cut stones with nearly shots. After Attockinson, his wife, two daughters, stepmother, two brothers, four sisters, and dogs, poppy.
