9 tips for estimating software project proposals

Alan Tai
11 min readAug 5, 2022
Tom Hanks and the fortune teller machine in the movie “Big” (Source: 20th Century Studios)
Tom Hanks and the fortune teller machine in the movie “Big” (Source: 20th Century Studios)

QuickDraw is the 2D graphics library written entirely by Bill Atkinson in the 1980s. Andy Hertzfeld considers it the single most significant component of the original Macintosh technology. It consists of a total of 17,101 lines of code in assembly language. During a magazine interview, Bill remembered that he worked on it on and off for four years. Steve Jobs told the magazine reporter that it was 24…

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