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From: mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Lawrence J. Mazlack)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Running in place
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 16:32:51 EDT
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Keywords: Reinventing the wheel

>It's been three years and six months since Apple first showed the
>Lisa.  Just to remind everyone, it was a machine much like the Mac,
>except that it had a 12" screen, 1 meg of memory, slots, and an
>operating system which allowed multiple applicatins to be visible on
>the screen at once (in their own windows) while keeping the desktop
>visible at all times.  Each application was, in effect, a
>"multi-document" application, because multiple windows on the same
.
.
>could both be on the screen at once).  It came with a hard disk drive
>and two floppies, each holding about 800K.  Development was done in
>Clascal, Apple's object-oriented version of Pascal.  The machine even
>ran Unix as an option.
>
>Now, after herculean investments of time, effort, and money on the
>part of Apple, the developer community, and the user community, it
>appears that we haven't moved forward much at all.  The up-and coming
>Mac (likely to be a few months away), will probably have 1 Meg of
.
.
>basic characteristics don't show the 3 1/2 years that have passed
>since the Lisa's introduction.  One would expect that it would have
>taken far less time to deliver an affordable system that employs
>(almost exculsively) established Lisa techonology.
>
>Any comments?
>

Mostly just the old ones questioning why Apple dropped the Lisa line originally.
Doing so both was technically questionable and lost the confidence of the
business community - a confidence that Apple still has yet to recover.

Larry Mazlack
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