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GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 27, 2005 @07:43AM from the :( dept.

Viridian writes "Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer."

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Re:Origins of the name. by Leo+McGarry · 2005-02-27 09:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

That's complete bullshit, and probably a troll to boot.

The original Apple Computer logo was a woodcut drawing of Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree with the inscription, "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. You can see a picture of it here. The bitten-apple logo was an invention of Rob Janoff of Regis McKenna.