Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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Some of the comments here come from people who seem to think that the WIMP is here to stay for ever - don't forget, this is coming from someone who played a (the?) major role in getting the WIMP metaphor widely acceptable in the first place when virtually all else was based on the CLI.
Halfway -- Raskin's actual ultimate role was to get Apple interested in the idea of a bitmapped screen and display paper metaphor. But the WIMP as we know it was essentially designed for the first Mac OS by (in no particular order) Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Larry Tesler, and Bruce Horn. The Macintosh as it came out of these folks heads was not what Raskin wanted. THE is much closer.