Just that Raskin’s orig vision for the Macintosh is basically what the Cat turned out to be, after Jobs took over and Raskin was out.
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I’m not sure if it’s such a straightforward story. The idea of what Mac should be kept changing so much in its early days…
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I wrote an article about this once: https://medium.com/@mwichary/the-changing-face-of-the-mac-7c4ab7c3fff4 …
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Plus I am not sure if Cat is a friendly computer from Raskin’s early memos. It feels much more Engelbartian to me.
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Also, apparently Cat was missing some things Raskin wanted, e.g. a mouse (!), although who knows how much of this is true.
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I've read that he didn't like mice and preferred a keyboard interface
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Me too, but I remember reading somewhere a mention that Cat has actual software routines for mouse support.
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So perhaps it wasn’t Raskin, just Canon’s interference/damage control?
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Ah, this is what I remembered: http://www.apple-history.com/gui_raskin2
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“The Cat had a connector and software hooks for a pointing device, but Canon never provided a mouse or mouse-equivalent for it.”
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Raskin had the "drag and drop" patent. He felt a mouse was not the right tool for text, not that it was a bad idea. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?12128-Prototype-to-the-Canon-Cat-the-quot-Swyft-quot/page3 …
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