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Actually the image showned for Clarus the DogCow is wrong; this is not the "real" one.
You can find the real ones here :
Clarus in Cairo Font (1984) :
<http://clarus.chez.tiscali.fr/MUSEUM/cairo2.gif>
Clarus in Dialog Page (official - 1986) :
<http://clarus.chez.tiscali.fr/MUSEUM/lw8.gif>
== removed something labeled as a "rumor" in the "facts" section 69.228.240.57 00:02, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
re: last edit made 22 june - is there a reason why the rumours about clarus still being used inside apple to signify things was taken out? Applegoddess 1 July 2005 21:50 (UTC)
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[edit] Dingbat
I don't know the Cairo font. Is it a dingbat font? --Abdull 10:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Claris/Clarus?
Does the now-defunct Claris software company's name have anything to do with Clarus the DogCow? (I'm assuming so, since Claris was an Apple subsidiary....) Misternuvistor 23:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Claris was already in existence when Mark Harlan wrote [TechNote 31], but as he says in the note:
- The dogcow's name is Clarus. Several people have said to me, "Mark, you handsome devil, I think I've heard that name, or something similar, somewhere before." I always tell them, "No, you're hallucinating again. You never remember anything." The dogcow's name is Clarus for the same reason you call a table a "table."
- MFNickster 09:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CowShark
A Dogcow is almost completely unlike a CowShark. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.189.75.148 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] This not "nonsense"
I do not understand why this page is marked as "nonsense". The definition of "nonsense" as it is in the Oxford English dictionary is: "1. spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense : he was talking absolute nonsense. 2. foolish or unacceptable behavior : put a stop to that nonsense, will you?"
This page is nether, it is simply about a font character out of a font set that gained popularity due to its nature. Deleting this page is like deleting the "All your base are belong to us" wiki entry. It is simply something that has become part of pop culture in certain circles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nabeel_co (talk • contribs) .
- Aye, I don't understand why either. I've removed the db template, it clearly doesn't belong on the article. Icey 18:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- I was about to remove the tag myself. It is clearly not a speedy G1 (patent nonsense) candidate. If the IP-only user who added it still thinks it should be deleted he is entitled to use Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. - Motor (talk) 18:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree, this is not nonsense, this is the basis for a cult following of old-skool macintosh. Like me.
The first thing that tripped my trigger was first sentence, 2nd paragraph: "The image of the dogcow was used to show the orientation and color of the paper in the Mac OS page setup dialog box in versions prior to Mac OS X."
Mac OS X was an entire series of OS's, and deserves its own section with it's own history. Starting with how Jobs&Co saw the Xerox PARC and moving along with System 1 through System 9.x.x gearing users for a non-proprietary operating system, unix. Also defintely needs references to Jobs and, basically a summary of what's happened at Apple since it's inception.
