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Top: Computers: Software: Operating_Systems: Graphic_Subsystems: Desktop_Environments: Archy:

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• - Touching memorial comic, features a Macintosh thanking Raskin.
  
• - List of about 60 articles by Raskin, with links to them.
  
• - Brief but thorough tribute article. [Software Development Times]
  
• - Touching memorial comic, features hill topped with an Apple tree.
  
• - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
  
• - Computer museum with many resources: photo galleries, information on early Apple I/II, Macintosh, IAI Swyft, Canon Cat, user interface experiments, other Raskin inventions; interviews, slides, remembrances by computer scientists.
  
• - Clear description of Archy (was THE), divided into interface components. [Wikipedia]
  
• - Interview of Aza Raskin on THE (Archy), and his father Jef. [ACM: Ubiquity]
  
• - By Paul Gilster. When Jef Raskin talks about computers, it pays to listen; he has spent his career thinking about how to make computing easier. Balanced, positive explanation of THE (Archy). [Raleigh News & Observer]
  
• - SourceForge site, with description, download, bug reports, some old news.
  
• - By Jef Raskin; Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201379376. Guide to interactive system design, reflects author experience and vision, shows many extant interfaces are dead ends, making computers easier to use needs new approaches. [publisher website]
  
• - Treats Pascal poster designed by Jef Raskin, and altered by Steve Jobs.
  
• - Film on Raskin being made via Internet collaboration. Interviews, comments, sample footage, Raskin Lectures on Interface. Short segments use Creative Commons license.
  
• - Frank, brief interview, criticism of Macintosh, thoughts on useful user interfaces, Hypercard, progress in computing. [Guardian Unlimited]
  
• - Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]
  
• - By Jef Raskin. Article stressing that GUIs are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, stressful. [Wired 1.06]
  
• - Brief praise of Raskin, and critique of Archy zooming interface, with references, by usability expert Don Norman who was at Apple with Raskin, during the early years.
  
• - Two sizable documents: Recollections of the Macintosh Project, More Historical Facts. Links to Bruce Horn letters.
  
• - Book review of The Human Interface: New Directions for Interface Design, by Jef Raskin, and the usual mass of forum comments. Many varied opinions. [Slashdot]
  
• - Short but thorough biography, links. [Wikipedia]
  
• - Summary of newspaper story, useful forum comments. [Linux Today]
  
• - By Alex Salkever. Raskin helped design Apple's classic user interface. He is working on a new system that could be a big improvement. Brief accessible analysis. [BusinessWeek]