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[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was always called Paint. Paintbrush is the Mac equivalent

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm so back in Windows 3.1, Wikipedia said paintbrush was a Mac app from the early 90s.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

MS renamed it for Windows 95, likely because of that and they were getting a lot of blowback for the interface in looking a lot like Mac anyway.