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\f0\b A melting digital clock \uc0\u8232 for MacOS X, PalmOS, and X11\
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version 2.25 \uc0\u8232 12-Nov-2007 \
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There are four programs here: a MacOS application; a MacOS screen saver; a MacOS Dashboard widget; and a PalmOS application. Double-click the screen saver or dashboard icons to install them.\
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This is a very old program! The original version was written some time in the early 1980s by Steve Capps for the Xerox Alto workstation. In 1984, he ported it to the original Macintosh 128K. \
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In 1991, I (Jamie Zawinski) re-implemented it from scratch for X Windows on Unix. It's been fairly popular there ever since.\
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In 1999, I ported the X11 version to PalmOS. The entertaining thing about this is that the Palm Pilot that I had at the time was an only slightly more powerful machine than the Mac 128K: they had almost the same CPU, and almost the same sized screen! The Palm was about 4x faster, though, and had 16x as much memory. And it weighed a whole lot less. \
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Finally, in 2005, I ported the X11 version to MacOS X, bringing this story full circle.\
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Dali Clock is free software, and all source code is available on the {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/"}}{\fldrslt \cf2 \ul \ulc2 web site}}.\