Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013) | Hacker News

A Hacker News thread discussed a Folklore.org post about Jef Raskin’s role in launching the Macintosh project.

Commenters debated how much of the Mac came from Raskin’s original vision versus later decisions by Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson, and others.

The thread focused on Raskin’s ideas for a graphical system, his objections to the mouse and some hardware choices, and how later history accounts frame his contribution.

Some participants also pointed to Raskin’s later Canon Cat computer and noted that the article’s title date appears to be incorrect.