From: Doug (dougp_at_ispinn.com)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 06:01:10 PST
NTLK,
This came from one of my email lists.
>from IEEE
>
> Jef Raskin the man behind the Macintosh computer
> died on 26 February at age 61 of pancreatic cancer.
> He oversaw the development of Apple Computer,
> Inc.'s breakthrough computer, the first successful
> PC to use a graphical user interface and is
> considered to be responsible for its user-friendly
> drag-and-drop function, later copied by Microsoft
> and other makers of operating systems. What is
> less well known is that Raskin wanted the Mac to
> be as much a communications device as a computer.
> In fact, in 1979, four years before the adoption
> of the Internet protocol, Raskin anticipated
> almost all of the Internet's current uses. He
> even proposed that Apple build an "Internet" of
> its own. Raskin left Apple in 1982, two years
> before the Mac was released, and the company
> failed to follow his vision. Last year he spoke
> to IEEE Spectrum's senior associate editor Steven
> Cherry about the road not taken.
Check out his notes on Jef the Movie:
http://jefthemovie.com/jef_project_notes.htm
Read his comments about saving a file using Archie and tell me if that doesn't sound suspiciously similar to the Newton experience.
Doug Parker
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