According to an IGN developer's spotlight, the game was created when Microsoft's J Allard proposed a summer internship focused on game design.
Allard headed up the team at Microsoft that created the two-screen tablet prototype called Courier.
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According to an internal email, Allard was a network engineer responsible for convincing Microsoft to ship TCP/IP in Windows 95.
The first edition of the specification was authored by Martin Hall, Mark Towfiq of Microdyne (later Sun Microsystems), Geoff Arnold of Sun Microsystems, and Henry Sanders and J Allard of Microsoft, with assistance from many others.
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