Cool. I see there's a Lisa emulator that exists and works on the raspberry pi: http://lisa.sunder.net
Sounds like access to the source code might allow for some more progress.
LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
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Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#12I think a better name for this would be Mac OS series 0. Going back to being serious seeing the source code for LisaOS sounds exciting . Apple changed my life when I used an Apple 2 in grade school. My first computer I got for Christmas was a G5 iMac. In college I used MacBooks and they replaced one with a newer model. I’m not sure I would have my current job if I wasn’t in Steve’s paradise .
ResEdit changed my life as a kid. I basically made a full game conversion at age 9 using ResEdit a basic draw application, and a Midi keyboard over serial on the family LCIII
Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#13Lisa was the really expensive Apple aimed at businesses right? I think I've seen it mentioned on the 8-Bit Guy's show. I wish I had visited the CHM when I was out on the west coast. I'll have to add it to the list for next time. I have been to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. For those of you travelling there, I highly recommend it and Recycle PC (in the same area). They've got a ton of old working systems you…
Apple /// was their first stab at a business computer. Too late as the 16 bit revolution was already underway.
Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#14I think a better name for this would be Mac OS series 0. Going back to being serious seeing the source code for LisaOS sounds exciting . Apple changed my life when I used an Apple 2 in grade school. My first computer I got for Christmas was a G5 iMac. In college I used MacBooks and they replaced one with a newer model. I’m not sure I would have my current job if I wasn’t in Steve’s paradise .
LisaOS really was a different beast than Mac OS, and very little code was shared between the two from what I've read. Just some QuickDraw code is my understanding. LisaOS was multitasking and more object oriented and more like a true OS from the start.
I'm super excited to be able to read the sources now.
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#15This is a great Christmas present!
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#16Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#17Lisa was the really expensive Apple aimed at businesses right? I think I've seen it mentioned on the 8-Bit Guy's show. I wish I had visited the CHM when I was out on the west coast. I'll have to add it to the list for next time. I have been to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. For those of you travelling there, I highly recommend it and Recycle PC (in the same area). They've got a ton of old working systems you…
IIRC, it was around 10k.
Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#18I think a better name for this would be Mac OS series 0. Going back to being serious seeing the source code for LisaOS sounds exciting . Apple changed my life when I used an Apple 2 in grade school. My first computer I got for Christmas was a G5 iMac. In college I used MacBooks and they replaced one with a newer model. I’m not sure I would have my current job if I wasn’t in Steve’s paradise .
LisaOS really was a different beast than Mac OS, and very little code was shared between the two from what I've read. Just some QuickDraw code is my understanding. LisaOS was multitasking and more object oriented and more like a true OS from the start. I'm super excited to be able to read the sources now.
Yep. In some ways LisaOS was ahead of where MacOS is now. It had stationery pads, for example, and it just felt snappier. On a processor 1/1000 as fast as a current Mac.
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#19In the earliest days of the Mac (1984) you had to have a Lisa to develop for the Mac, because that was the machine the Pascal compiler ran on. I bought a Lisa and a Mac for this reason. It'll be fun to see the source code.
Re: LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
#20In the earliest days of the Mac (1984) you had to have a Lisa to develop for the Mac, because that was the machine the Pascal compiler ran on. I bought a Lisa and a Mac for this reason. It'll be fun to see the source code.
Wasn't that enormously expensive? Was it purely for fun or did you recoup your investment?