[Discuss] Lisa Emulator Released, interesting details of LOS

[Lloyd Budd]

On 2/28/07, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net> wrote:
> Now here's an interesting article, detailing part of the state of
> computing 24 years ago (1983):
>
> http://lowendmac.com/hodges/07/0227.html
>
> An emulator for Apple's Lisa computer, which came before the first
> Mac, has been released.

> But particularly interesting is the description of what the Lisa
> Office System was like to use.  A few details:

Fantastic! The differences and more so the similarities of where we
are today are .

>    * The LOS was preemptively multitasked, which is ironic considering
> that the following Mac OS wasn't until X; so eg, you can hold a menu
> down and other tasks in the background keep going.

I don't know if it is still the case, but I recall Mac OS X GUI
controller still being single threaded resulting in UI lockups when
holding does a menu down scenario.

That emulator for Apple's Lisa computer article also reminds me of
where NeXTSTEP seems to have been in the mid-90s (compared to today),
as shown by Steve Job's NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A

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