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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)
Keywords: Rooms, Xerox, PARC
Message-ID: <237@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 88 21:27:13 GMT
References: <813@tank.uchicago.edu> <6217@netnews.upenn.edu>
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Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <6217@netnews.upenn.edu> binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tim Binder) writes:
>
>is that it has taken Apple over 4 years to get the Mac to where the Lisa
>was when it was first introduced! The Lisa had only 512K of memory, yet
>supported a desktop much like MULTIFINDER now. Now, however, if you have
>1 MEG of RAM or less, don't even think about it. The same is becoming true

The Lisa came with 1Mb; we never quite got the system to run with 512K of
RAM.  More importantly, the Lisa has an MMU and used virtual memory.

Also, there was a development environment for the Lisa (called the Lisa
Workshop), and there was an application framework called the Lisa ToolKit,
which was the predecessor of MacApp.  (There was also a way to write
character-based applications that ran on the Lisa.)  A couple of 3rd
parties did write applications for the Lisa.

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