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Raskin’s original vision of the Mac sucked. It would have been text based with no mouse and no GUI.
The Canon CAT was his vision and lacked GUI and mouse. He may have been to Xerox PARC first but completely rejected everything they learned.
The one button mouse was obviously the wrong choice given that everyone can keep track of what two buttons do...IF it was his contribution, and some folks dispute that, it was another poor one.
Raskin also had a tendency to “embellish” his accomplishments. He, as Andy once commented, was NOT the father of the mac but it’s strange uncle...one with a nearsighted vision of where computing would go.
He’s another example of an engineer under Jobs that did well at Apple and never did anything really relevant again after...and IMHO his primary contribution to the Max was hiring Atkinson and promoting Hertzfeld from service to development.
