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Jef Raskin dies

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Even as Steve Jobs celebrates his birthday, Jef Raskin, who first concieved of the Macintosh and gave the project its name, has passed away.

The link is in the "News" sidebar on the main page
http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=14247

Raskin had worked at Xerox PARC, and brought many of the ideas with him to Apple. It was Raskin who convinved Steve Jobs to go on his famous visit to PARC, where he saw the GUI prototypes Raskin had been telling him about.
 
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That is sad. He was not that old. I could be wrong but I would say mid to late 50'
s. I wonder what happened.
 
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I am so very sad to hear that! He is an historic person in the computer world and will be surely missed
 
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