His son, Aza Raskin, will continue to develop the project, a preview version of which is due out later this year, his family said in the statement. Archy uses simple commands for common operations in word processing and e-mail, but “doesn’t work like anything else on this or nearby planets,” meaning users would have to learn it from scratch, he wrote on his Web site. Raskin was currently at work on a project called Archy, where he hoped to put many of the ideas expressed in his book into software. In 2000 he published a book, “The Humane Interface,” that is widely assigned at universities. Jef Raskin (born Jeff Raskin Ma February 26, 2005) was an American humancomputer interface expert who conceived and initiated the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 1970s. Raskin himself replied and tried to explain some things. I say that because about 6 months ago he got a lot of flames for criticizing Apple for continuing to make the mistakes which he preaches against inherent in the WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, pointer) interface. Jef also died of Pancreatic Cancer, just like his arch nemesis, Steve Jobs. Jef Raskin is a highly misunderstood HCI expert. Didnt realise until much later that he was probably raising funds for his medical treatment, hence the steep price. He wanted 10K for one, which I couldnt afford. His consulting clients have included Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. I remember writing to Jef Raskin and asking if will sell me one of his Canon Cats in the early 2000s. Soon after leaving the company he founded Information Appliance Inc., where he designed the Canon Cat computer for Canon USA Inc., although the product was not a commercial success. Raskin left Apple in 1982, two years before the Macintosh went on sale, but he continued to influence the design of computers through his writing, lectures and consulting work.
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