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Re: GSOS on Lisa?




> 
> There is a way to run MacOS on a Lisa, provided you can make it fit...my
> Lisa has only 512k (0.5Mb), which is not enough for System 7.  The product
> is MacWorks (or something like that) which allows you to boot the Lisa
> either into MacOS or into the Lisa Office System.  I have not seen this
> product, I merely know that it exists, and when last I heard, it was
> available from Sun Remarketing.  But that was several years ago.
> 
> --Dave Althoff, ][.
> -- 


Actually, you can get the MacOS to run on a Lisa with 1/2 meg of ram (Your
right about system 7).  The latest version I have on mine is system 3.2. 
(This was also the last version available from apple before it went to
Sun).

To get system 7 to run you had to do some funky stuff to your lisa. There
was a special video chip and connector which would force the oval shaped
pixels on the lisa screen to a square shape.  There was also some other
changes which had to be done to run system 7, all of which are/were
available from Sun.

Rob
bede0005@gold.tc.umn.edu