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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture
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Date: 28 Jun 90 12:04:25 GMT
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In article <63007@sgi.sgi.com> karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>Hence, the Apple Lisa.  Then they went back and made it better.  The result
>was the Macintosh.
 . . .
>The Lisa was a flop.  Apple has buried the remaining few unsold ones in a
>lanfill.  The Macintosh incorportated new UI technology which enabled it
>to be successful.  If Apple didn't have intellectual property protection
>on the Macintosh, I think they'd probably be out of business today.

     The Lisa "flopped" because of pricing problems, not interface 
difficulties.  I can remember how great the original Lisa was.  We used it
for all sorts of things, and found it to be an excellent tool.  When the Mac
came out, I was sorely disappointed.  It seemed to me that to turn the Lisa
into a Mac, all you need to do is make the screen ridiculously small and
remove multi-tasking.  Someone here at Harris still has a Lisa, and is
still using it.  I can understand why.

     And didn't Apple resell all those old Lisas to Sun Remarketing, which 
turned them into Macs?  Just look in the Used Computer Locator.

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