Michael Peirce

Michael Richard Peirce (born November 1961) is a former software engineer at Claris, a subsidiary of Apple.
==Career==
In the mid 1980s, Peirce developed EarthPlot, an early global mapping tool for classic Mac OS.EarthPlot 3.0, Macintosh Garden. 1988.
===Claris===
While at Claris, Peirce developed Public Folder, released in 1989 as the first peer-to-peer file sharing utility for classic Mac OS. A similar feature would not appear from Apple until 1991 as part of System 7.DiskStatus & AppSizer by Adam Engst, TidBITS. 1992-05-25.
===After Claris===
After leaving Claris, Peirce became an independent developer and wrote MemorySetter, a small application memory management utility for classic Mac OS that was released as part of the original release of Now Utilities in 1990. It was later released independently as AppSizer.Now Utilities: Overview by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS #45. 1991.
Recent patent filings indicate that Pierce has been continuing to work or contract with Apple Inc. on technology related to remote control of presentations at least since 2008.Michael Richard Peirce, Justia Patents. Accessed 2021-09-11.
==Books==
*Programming with AppleTalk by Michael Peirce, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1991.
==References==
==External links==
*Peirce Software official home page (archived 1996-12-30)
*Michael Peirce at the Apple App Store
Category:Apple employees