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Thursday, January 29, 2004

Jef Raskin, Macintosh inventor, looks to the future of computing

Pacifica Tribune: "Raskin's involvement [with the development of the Mac] is best chronicled in Stanford University's official computer history files as opposed to MacWorld magazine and other Apple organs." [I love the explicit acknowledgment that MacWorld is an "Apple organ."]

"'I invented click and drag,' he says. 'Nobody else was using click and drag.' Nowadays, that alone can be seen as a universal computer element. Unfortunately, while working for Apple, the company would not allow Raskin to publish, something that kept his importance to the Macintosh project private for too long. "

Raskin even notes, as I have, that today's OS X doesn't offer a huge change over the desktop metaphor Apple introduced in the first Mac. "'The industry forces incompatibility,' Raskin says. It also gets bogged down in its own success. 'I can't believe I can buy a Macintosh that works like it did 20 years ago,' he muses. 'I want to change things again.'"

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