In memoriam, Jef Raskin 1943-2005

[indigojo]

Home page text and link on Google

[garyr_h]

And yet many of the pages still have a PR 0... ;)

All kidding aside... He was a great man for computers and will be greatly missed in the tech world.

[indigojo]

Interviewed by Jason Walsh
Thursday October 21, 2004
The Guardian

Perhaps the longest surviving legacy of your original design is its "appliance" nature. Has this simplicity of design been key to the Mac's popularity?

Yes, but unfortunately, the Mac is now a mess. A third party manual (Pogue's The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine.

[pendanticist]

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