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	Dogcow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The name 'dogcow' came into use after the print dialog was released.
		In the mid 1990s, when Apple installed an Icon Garden, Clarus the Dogcow was one of the icons featured between two of the RandD buildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dogcow (584 words)

	Dogcow - WikiMac
		It is, essentially, a female dog with nose and spots that look like a cow, originally created in 1983 as part of the Cairo font by Susan Kare as the glyph for 'z'.
		The dogcow's image was used to show the orientation and colour of the paper in the Mac OS Page Setup dialogue box in system versions before Mac OS X.
		When the dogcow was removed in Mac OS X, many people requested that Apple bring it back (and third-party utilities that did the trick actually existed).
	mac.wikicities.com /wiki/Dogcow (183 words)

	Dogcow - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The greatest Apple invention ever was the dogcow, and she was discovered in April 1989 by Mark Harlan.
		The particular dogcow that lives in Macintoshes is known as "Clarus".
		Microsoft, in all its Apple jealousy, tried hiding the dogcow in their OS too.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Dogcow (183 words)

	FOoM Homepage - MooF! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dogcows, by their nature, are not all dog, nor are they all cow, but they are a special genetic hybrid.
		Since dogcows are two dimensional, they will stand facing a viewer "on edge" to avoid being seen.
		The dogcow has no natural enemies, but the meager population manages to keep itself in check through its own stupidity.
	www.foom.net /pages.php?node=01/11/04/3613122 (324 words)

	Dogcow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the shape of a female dog with nose and spots that looklike a cow, originally created in 1983 as part of the Cairo font by Susan Kare as the glyph for 'z'.
		The image of the dogcow was used to show the orientation and color of the paper in Macintosh operating system printer page setupbefore Mac OS X.
		Somewhere along the line I baptized the dogcow "Clarus." Of course she's a female, as are all cows; males would bereferred to as dogbulls, but none exist because there are already bulldogs, and God doesn't like to have naming problems.
	www.therfcc.org /dogcow-281965.html (407 words)

	History of the Dogcow -- Part 1
		If you don't know what or who the dogcow is, or you don't care for Apple cultural minutiae, you should just flip past this column.
		The dogcow was originally a character in the Cairo font that used to ship with the Macintosh; it was designed by Susan Kare.
		In an act of desperation he said, "It's both, OK? It's called a 'dogcow.' Now will you get out of my office?" The date was October 15, 1987, and I consider this to be the first use of the term.
	www.mug.jhmi.edu /mirrors/InfoAlley/0595/15/dogcow.html (1431 words)

	The Reservoir Dogcows - Moof!
		All Dogcow members are asked to visit the election threads for Guild Master and Officers in the Members Only forum for details on how to vote.
		All Dogcow members are asked to visit the nomination thread in the Members Only forum to make your nominations for Guild Master and two of our Officer positions.
		All Dogcow members (initiates and non-members cannot access the poll) are strongly encourage to view the poll and vote for their choice.
	www.dogcows.net (795 words)

	Technote 31 - The Dogcow
		At this point, it should be noted that dogcows are notorious for brainwashing people, and it's likely that a dogcow would make someone "think" that they added its picture to a dialog of their own free will, when the dogcow actually had complete control.
		The dogcow was kicked around, laughed at, and virtually orphaned from everyone's memory.
		Of course, now the dogcow is very popular, you may see someone outside of DTS with a dogcow button or shirt.
	www.babymeat.com /~dogcow/tn31.html (1039 words)

	History & Peregrinations: The Dogcow Goes QuickTime VR
		DTS engineer Brian Bechtel has been the guardian of Dogcow history, creating and maintaining a great Web page, entitled "A nest of Dogcattle," with a compendium of links to documents that detail the wonderful history of the Dogcow.
		Figure 3 shows the Dogcow becoming even larger than the largest known DTS engineer, Dave Polaschek, and appearing along the way as a "lawn creature" on the Apple R and D campus in Cupertino, California.
		The Dogcow surpassing the size of the largest known DTS engineer and appearing as a lawn creature on the R and D campus.
	developer.apple.com /technotes/tn/tn1031.html (1435 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dogcow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A mascot is something, typically an animal or human character used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team (the name often corresponds with the mascot), society or corporation.
		The Dogcow is a (An image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels) bitmapped image first introduced by (Click link for more info and facts about Apple Computer) Apple Computer.
		When the dogcow was removed in (Click link for more info and facts about Mac OS X) Mac OS X, many people requested that Apple bring it back.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dogcow (1291 words)

	Dogcow - TheBestLinks.com - Apple Computer, Apple Macintosh, Bitmap, Cow, ...
		The image of the dogcow was used to show the orientation and color of the paper in Macintosh operating system printer page setup before Mac OS X.
		Technote 31 (http://www.macfreek.nl/humour/tn31.html) is legendary for its description of the dogcow.
		In the mid 1990s, when Apple installed an Icon Garden (http://icongarden.jory.org), Clarus the Dogcow was one of icons featured between two of the RandD buildings.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dogcow.html (509 words)

	June 94 - History of the Dogcow, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If you think of the dogcow fathers as being Zz Zimmerman, Mark Johnson, and me, there's only one dogcow shirt that received our supervision and approval: the fl DTS sweatshirt with the small dogcow on the chest (designed by Toni Trujillo).
		The dogcow regularly appears on documents that are no longer connected to DTS, or in some cases (such as Scott Knaster's books) not even from Apple.
		In a sense, the dogcow has become mainstream; people are copying it -- and that's exactly what I was fighting against in the first place (not to mention that she, and her "Moof!" cry, are bona fide trademarks of Apple Computer).
	www.mactech.com /articles/develop/issue_18/114-115_Dogcow_2.html (1241 words)

	Dogcow Museum of Macintown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Dogcow was first introduced as a font character in the old Cairo font included on older Macs.
		If you really must see the rainbow Dogcow, including the rest of the Dogcow herd, make a copy of a Color Stylewriter driver (these are found in the Extensions folder) and open it up with ResEdit.
		The sound was recorded by the creators of the Dogcow's stories, and although I cannot remember their names, the are very important to Dogcow history.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Horizon/1326/clarusframes.html (453 words)

	Dogcow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When the dogcow was removed in OS X, many people requested that Apple bring it back.
		In the mid 1990's, when Apple installed an icon sculpture garden, Clarus the Dogcow was one of icons featured between two of the R&D buildings.
		Apple DTS engineer Brian Bechtel created and maintained a webpage at the ADC site, but the website has not been updated since the ADC site overhaul and cannot be found.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/d/do/dogcow.html (803 words)

	Moof! in Mind! - The Official Dogcow Website - The Truth about Moof!
		The dogcow was born in the early eighties at Apple Computer.
		The dogcow on the left comes from the Cairo font (enlarged 3x) while the one on the right is (you guessed it) from the Page Setup dialog (enlarged 2x).
		It's commonly believed the dogcow is named "Moof!" (Who, I ask, could be so foolish as to believe this?) So widespread has this misunderstanding become, certain (to remain unspecified) Web Pages, and even a New York Times article from as recently as August, 1996 incorrectly referred to the poor little dogcow as "Moof!"
	www.storybytes.com /view-moof/articles/mim.html (2167 words)

	MacSlash \| Original DogCow Mousepads On eBay
		As a recent switcher anyone have any decent links to information on what Clarus the Dogcow is? I did a google search but for some reason the hits I got didn't seem to capture the hoopla as well as I imagined it to be.
		She designed the original icons [kare.com], and also sells mousepads [cafeshops.com] with the dogcow on.
		The one I settled on was GyazMail [gyazsquare.com].
	macslash.org /article.pl?sid=03/11/27/1742209 (468 words)

	dogcow - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Moof, Clarus
		The dogcow is a drawing of a rather indiscriminate-looking animal (it looks mostly like a dog but is said to have the spots of a cow) that is or has been used in the Apple Macintosh operating system to help tell users about their printing options.
		The dogcow is used to show you what kind of option you've selected.
		OS X creators originally dropped the dogcow, but on-line petitions and press coverage designed to "bring back the dogcow" have made Apple executives aware of the tremendous cult following of this hybrid icon.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci211983,00.html (346 words)

	NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Definitions & Text Messaging
		The dogcow is used to help tell users about their printing options.
		The dogcow icon was originally created by graphic artist Susan Kare (she is also the artist who created the graphic interface for everyone's favorite Windows 3.1 card game, Solitaire).
		Mac creators dropped the dogcow in later OS versions, but online petitions and press coverage designed to "bring back the dogcow" have made Apple executives aware of the tremendous cult following of this hybrid icon.
	www.netlingo.com /lookup.cfm?term=dogcow (252 words)

	Dogcow Cutout Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To me the Dogcow is a symbol of the "Think Different" presence at Apple Computer and long been an icon of ingenuity.
		The Bobbing-Head Dogcow is not copyrighted by anyone, but please if you take it provide a link back here to be nice.
		maybe apple will develop a 3-D model of the Dogcow someday, but that would infringe on the whole premise that the Dogcow is 2-D. We encourage Comments and Suggestions, even submit revisons to the Dogcow and we'll tell you want we think.
	www.concentric.net /~Lollis/dogcow.html (322 words)

	Applelinks.com Macintosh News
		For benefit of Mac newbies and the uninitiated, the Dogcow is described by Mark "The Red" Harlan in an April 1989 Apple technote as:
		This technote says that Tech Note 31 was the first description of the Dogcow.
		The dogcow symbol and "Moof" are registered trademarks of Apple Computer.
	www.applelinks.com /articles/2001/02/20010214122752.shtml (550 words)

	Dogcow - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Dogcows do not "moo" (like a cow) or "woof" (like a dog).
		However when in a very excited state (such as being near a full can of Mountain Dew) they will say "Boo Woo Moof!".
		Dogcow, Other usage, Excerpts from Technote 31, Facts, External links, Apple Computer, Computing mascots and Technology folklore.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Dogcow (659 words)

	MLCS - A Footnote on the History of the Dogcow
		The watch, the hand, the pencil, the eraser, letters, numbers, and the everpresent 12 foot tall dogcow.
		I never really liked the dogcow, too cute for my taste.
		Supposedly, there was a picture of the dogcow and the PowerFeCes with credit to Light Software on the May 1994 Developer's CD.
	www.mlcsmith.com /done/dogcow (1722 words)

	March 94 - HISTORY OF THE DOGCOW PART 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M. announcing that Tech Notes were shipping at noon and implied that my manliness was in question if I didn't get that Note in the batch.
		Shortly after the release of that Note, Chris Derossi (ex-DTS, now at General Magic) convinced me that a better solution was to have the correct way to draw the dogcow be pixelated, to avoid these idiosyncracies in the future -- which is what's now done.
		There will be more history of the dogcow in a future issue ofdevelop.
	www.mactech.com /articles/develop/issue_17/135-136_Dogcow_column.html (1599 words)

	limon :: by Laura Lemay :: RIP dogcow (moof)
		The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) posts that Apple Technote #31, describing Clarus, the Dogcow, seems to have gone missing on the Apple Developer Website.
		The dogcow is a bit of apple lore that turned up again and again in various places in Apple software over the years.
		I note that wikipedia has a big page about the dogcow as well (although it is sadly quite factual and dry).
	blog.lauralemay.com /archives/000455.html (332 words)

	History of the Dogcow -- Part 2
		Chris Derossi and Mary Burke designed a dogcow mousepad and even went so far as to call Pepsi-Cola to get the exact color of Mountain Dew green for the background.
		In a sense, the dogcow has become mainstream; people are copying it - and that's exactly what I was fighting against in the first place (not to mention that she, and her "Moof!" cry, are bona fide trademarks of Apple Computer).
		To put a stop to all this, I'm threatening to kill her off, but develop's editor has become such a fan that she's not sure she'll accept a "Dogcow is Dead" column.
	www.mug.jhmi.edu /mirrors/InfoAlley/0595/29/dogcow.html (1170 words)

	Dogcow Cutout Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Then, turn the dogcow over to slide the tail out the back (smaller) slit to complete the tail.
		Now that you have completed your dogcow (Clarus), you may now place him on top of your Mac.
		Want a dogcow family?, simply print more and ajust the scaling on the page setup to get different size dogcattle.
	www.concentric.net /%7ELollis/dogcowcutoutpage.html (196 words)

	[No title]
		What follows is a well-researched ::choked laugh:: history of the Apple dogcow, which is rumored to make the sound, "moof!" The origin of the dogcow goes back to the Cairo font which used to ship with Macintosh computers.
		The unique look of the dogcow made for very effective displays of concepts such as print area size or inverted image that would otherwise have been very difficult to explain.
		The dogcow is now stands as a symbol of the Mac-geek wherever he may roam.
	homepage.mac.com /eric220/site/moof.html (298 words)

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