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GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Jef Raskin memorial site by digigardener · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slashdotters, I have been working with the Raskins for several years to document Jef's life and work for the DigiBarn Computer Museum. I have turned Jef's page at the museum site into a memorial page for him. See what Jef was all about (more than just GUIs) at:
    Jef Raskin: A Life of Design and the rest of the DigiBarn is of relevance to this topic at:
    DigiBarn Computer Museum
    Thanks!
    Bruce Damer, Curator