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Visit Jef's personal website at JefRaskin.com. You may also read the Raskin family's press release, issued after Jef's death in February, 2005.
From the time he was a teenager, Jef Raskin envisioned a world in which computers served humanity, rather than forcing us to do things in their own oftentimes quirky ways. After sparking a revolution in the computing world in the early 1980s with the Macintosh, Jef worked until the end of his life to create another revolution, an even more far-reaching one than the first.
Apple Macintosh and GUI
As employee number 31 at Apple, Jef created the Macintosh project, naming it after his favorite variety of apple, the McIntosh. The year was 1979. Despite opposition from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Jef won backing for the project from Apple chairman Mike Markulla, wrote the original 400-page spec and hired the development team, including Bud Tribble, Brian Howard, and Burrell Smith. Jef led the effort for the crucial first three years, resigning from Apple in 1982 when Jobs took control. He championed the bit-mapped screen, invented the one-button mouse, "click and drag," and many other features now taken for granted by computer users. The Macintosh interface, also known as a graphical user interface (GUI), became a global standard. (For more about the early history of the Macintosh, see "Macintosh's Other Designers," by John Markoff and Ezra Shapiro, in Byte Magazine, issue 8/1984, pp. 347-356, or click here).
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