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Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

A list of commands in Archy. Credit: Cameron Kaiser The COMMANDS verb gives you a list of commands (notice that Archy has acquired a concept of locked text, normally on a black background, and my attempt to type there brought me automatically to somewhere I actually could type). While THE’s available command suite was almost entirely specific to an editor …

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Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

To crystallize these concepts, rather than create another new computer, Raskin instead started work on a software package with a team that included his son, Aza, initially called The Humane Environment. THE’s HumaneEditorProject was first unveiled to the world on Christmas Eve 2002, though initially only as a SourceForge CVS tree, since it was considered very unfinished. The original early …

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