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Jef Raskin's Humane Interface Released

Posted by timothy on from the fitting-tribute dept.

cold wolf writes "With a new site layout and information, the Raskin Center has also just released Archy (formally known at The Humane Interface). It is currently in Alpha phase and Windows only, as an executable."

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  1. Capital letters? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny
    Shouldn't a proper Archy interface has no capital letters at all?

    Anyway, I had enough of the whole cockroaches-in-the-computer thing when I lived in Brooklyn for a while. It gets old pretty fast.

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  2. No tilde? Kiss file access goodbye. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Tildes and backticks are impossible to type, they've become control characters"

    No tilde????? That makes it pretty much useless for Windows file access, with all the c:\progra~1, etc. That's a huge mistake for something that is starting out on the windows platform.

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  3. From The FAQ by Goo.cc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q. Is Archy an application or an OS?

    A. Archy doesn't quite fit into the traditional mold of either an application or an operating system. It is an application in that it runs on top of your current operating system, but it is more than that. It's also like an operating system in that it provides a framework for issuing commands.

    So, uh, you recreated Emacs?

  4. Re:Trying it out now by nate+nice · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Tildes and backticks are impossible to type, they've become control characters"

    Hmm, it's going to be hard (even harder I should say) to write C++ programs that don't have memory leaks now.

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  5. Re:Stupid by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Dispite all their humane-this, humane-that"

    I don't think any minks were slaughtered to create it, were there? Perhaps the "humane" claim is the only one of its wild boasts that really is true.

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  6. Re:Archy = pogo stick. Usual GUI = bicycle. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Sorry, I'm an objective realist when it comes to user interfaces. One method must be better than another"

    Sorry, I am not completely up on my UI objectivism. Time to attempt to read those old Ayn Rand masterpieces "The Fountainmouse" and "Linus Shrugged".

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