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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was always called Paint. Paintbrush is the Mac equivalent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.