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From: rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Roger Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The origins of "LISA"
Message-ID: <3762@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 09:05:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.3762
Posted: Thu Sep  3 09:05:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:05:47 EDT
References: <4VBN0Dy00V4Iowk0-2@andrew.cmu.edu> <974@homxb.UUCP>
Organization: Velveteen Rabbit Corps
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Summary: Job's daughter

In article <974@homxb.UUCP>, roger@homxb.UUCP (heavenly blessed & worldly wise) writes:
> In article <4VBN0Dy00V4Iowk0-2@andrew.cmu.edu>, rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes:
> > 
> > My understanding is that LISA stands for Locally Integrated Software
> > Architecture, but was really defined as such just so the group
> > could have a reason to keep their favorite name for the machine.
> > 
> > 		--Rich
> 
> 
> I always thought LISA was an abbreviation for
> 
>          "Let's Invent Some Acronym".
> 
> Roger Tait
> ..ihnp4!homxb!roger


NO! The accepted mythos is that the Lisa was named after Job's daughter,
Lisa (wow :-) You can read this all over the place; Chrysler reportedly 
did not name one of their cars after someone Iaccoca knew because of this
"curse" of naming products after loved ones.

To throw the media off, and because of the craze of XT/AT/RTetc acronyms,
Apple did start writing it as LISA, for "let's invent some acronym."

(you can all read about it the A+ issue about Apple 10th year anniversary)

Roger

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