![]() This included a compact desktop unit containing a 12 inch black-and-white screen, and two revolutionary floppy disk drives called Twiggy. The Lisa was built upon sophisticated hardware technology. be pleasing and fit into an everyday work environment.provide an open software and hardware architecture,.have enough performance to do the jobs that need doing,.conform to the ways people actually work,.Unofficially, "Lisa" has been associated with the name of a child fathered by one of the Lisa designers (this may be the same person who is now head of Next Computer, Inc., Mr. Officially, Apple states that "Lisa" stood for Local Integrated Software Architecture. To set the story straight (as far as I know) here are the facts behind the name "Lisa". The name "Lisa" has always been rather enigmatic for most computer users, including Lisa owners. Developing a computer which was an order of magnitude easier to use than traditional computers required several major departures. ![]() The Lisa charter was to build a revolutionary computer that was truly easy to use and thereby mitigate the limitations of existing computers. Larry Tesler, one of the Lisa's main designers and currently a key technologist at Apple Computer.Īpple began developing the Lisa computer in 1979. This paper is loosely based upon the excellent article "The Legacy of the Lisa" (MacWorld magazine, Sep. All facts contained herein were obtained from Apple's cornucopia of Lisa literature, Apple's Macintosh literature, discussions with other Lisa owners, and my personal involvement with and close observations of both machines since 1984. The author has never worked for Apple and as such is not privy to any insider secrets about this machine. This paper hopes to show why the Lisa was significant in its time and how some of what was called "Lisa Technology" is slowly migrating to other computer systems, mainly the Apple Macintosh computer series. The audience of this paper is anyone who has an interest in innovative computing technology and wants to learn a little about Apple Computer's brief foray into this area via the Lisa computer. This paper is an attempt by a long time Lisa user to clarify the significance of the Apple Lisa personal computer for the computing industry. Macintosh XL, MacWorks, Lisa-to-Mac Migration Kit The Lisa Legacy The Legacy of the Apple Lisa Personal Computer: An Outsider's View © Copyright 1993 - David T.
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