Pioneering Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dies at 74

Bill Atkinson, a key role in the development of McIntos and other landmarks Apple products, died of pancreatic cancer.

After Atkinson’s family Facebook announced his passing onServed Steven Levi An overview of many achievements of Atkinson 51 number as Apple employee. In addition to Macintos, he contributed or contributed to the Apple projects or contributed to the inclusion of Lisa computers, Quikdra, The Magic Slate (iPad’s predecessor) and hypercard (the predecessor of the World Wide Web).

Atkinson, who was 743, eventually became interested in nature photography and when he was suffering from cancer last year, he wrote on Facebook that he “has already lived an amazing and great life.”

In A post on xApple’s CEO Tim Cook Atkinson describes “as a true dreamer whose creativity on Mac, heart and groundbreaking will inspire us forever.” And John Gruber wrote the brave fireball It “Without a hyperbol,” Atkinson “may probably be the best computer programmer who ever lived.”