“The dogcow has no natural enemies, but the meager population manages to keep itself in check through its own stupidity. In 1989 a legendary and tongue-in-cheek Apple developer document, DTS TechNote #31, officially recognized this critter as “Clarus the Dogcow” and she soon became the mascot of the DTS Team: In 1986 she mutated with System 5 to become the bitmapped creature that displays print setting options for the LaserWriter. She was born in 1983 in Apple’s labs during the Macintosh creation, as a character in the Cairo font designed by Susan Kare. Clarus is a hybrid digital entity falling somewhere between a Dog and a Cow ( aka DogCow). Longtime Macintosh users certainly remember Clarus the DogCow, a quirky and unusual component of the original Mac OS.
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