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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple lisa
Message-ID: <14812@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Jan 91 17:38:54 GMT
References: <37512@cup.portal.com> <10875@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <10875@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>complaint I've got with the Lisa is that it's *SLOW*.  Multitasking at
>5Mhz is almost useless ...

Multitasking of PDP-11 UNIX occurred on a considerably punier machine,
and it was wonderful.  Perhaps the real problem was with the Lisa's
system software (possibly its window management routines).