<s>
A	O
primitive	O
version	O
was	O
operational	O
by	O
April	O
1983	O
,	O
when	O
Joan	O
Pendleton	O
,	O
Shing	O
Kong	O
and	O
other	O
graduate	O
student	O
chip	O
designers	O
suffered	O
through	O
many	O
fast	O
revisions	O
devised	O
to	O
meet	O
their	O
needs	O
in	O
designing	O
the	O
SOAR	O
CPU	O
chip	O
,	O
a	O
follow-on	O
to	O
Berkeley	B-General_Concept
RISC	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fearing	O
that	O
Ousterhout	O
was	O
going	O
to	O
propose	O
another	O
name	O
that	O
started	O
with	O
"	O
C	B-Language
"	O
to	O
match	O
his	O
previous	O
projects	O
Cm*	O
,	O
Caesar	O
,	O
and	O
Crystal	O
,	O
Gordon	O
Hamachi	O
proposed	O
the	O
name	O
Magic	O
because	O
he	O
liked	O
the	O
idea	O
of	O
being	O
able	O
to	O
say	O
that	O
people	O
used	O
magic	O
to	O
design	O
chips	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
software	I-License
,	O
subject	O
to	O
the	O
requirements	O
of	O
the	O
BSD	B-Operating_System
license	I-Operating_System
,	O
Magic	O
continues	O
to	O
be	O
popular	O
because	O
it	O
is	O
easy	O
to	O
use	O
and	O
easy	O
to	O
expand	O
for	O
specialized	O
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Magic	O
currently	O
runs	O
under	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
although	O
versions	O
exist	O
for	O
DOS	B-Device
,	O
OS/2	B-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Magic	O
is	O
frequently	O
used	O
in	O
conjunction	O
with	O
IRSIM	O
and	O
other	O
simulation	B-Language
programs	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
Tcl/Tk	B-Application
under	O
the	O
hood	O
.	O
</s>
