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From talking with him I don't know that it meant a command-line itself (I have no idea), but it was very much focused on using the keyboard to control reading a
by gumby 4y ago
From talking with him I don't know that it meant a command-line itself (I have no idea), but it was very much focused on using the keyboard to control reading and navigation, as opposed to Mac's (of the 80s) very mouse-centred interface (remember it didn't even have arrow keys).
There is a document he wrote for Apple all about his ideas of what the mac should be, surely findable somewhere with some google-fu. I assume jobs just took one look at it and chucked it straight into the bin.
He was an interesting thinker.
GeekyBear mentions the Cannon Cat, and posts a link that goes down an interesting rathole.
- II2II 4y agoThank you for pointing out the articles. Along the way, I found several evenings of reading that should cover Raskin's ideas for the Macintosh in much greater detail: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/earlymac.html https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/earlymac.html