Re: Apple Lisa Software

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Sheldon Simms (sheldon@atlcom.net) wrote:
: In article <tarzan-2012961612100001@ppp-46.ts-1.hou.idt.net>, "Tarzan"
: <tarzan@mail.idt.net> wrote:

: > Can't you use system 2 or something like that on Lisa ? I think they have
: > the Lisa System Software with the rest of the MacOS versions on the Apple
: > Home Page

: Probably so, but for someone who's trying to set up the Lisa system
: as a hobbyist thing, the Lisa System Software would be much better than
: a lame-o early Mac System. The Lisa OS is, in some ways, the most
: technologically advanced OS Apple has ever produced. For example, it has
: preemptive multitasking, which Mac still does not after 12 years.

Good point, Sheldon!

What struck me about MacOS System 7 was how many features of the Lisa
Office System...which never made it into the Macintosh Finder...finally
reappeared in System 7.  Like decent multitasking (I am not enough of a
modern computer person to be able to readily tell the difference between
cooperative and preemptive), "stationery pads", and the ability to do a
clean shut-down by hitting the power switch...

That said, does anyone have a ProDOS or GS/OS utility to make a disk image
of a 400k floppy, then make a disk out of the image?  I realize that the
implications of doing this are the piracy of the Lisa Office System
(though I would never suggest such a thing...), but it seems that there
are a lot of Lisas out there begging for software...and now we hear that
even Sun Remarketing doesn't support those things anymore...

(Incidentally, you know the Milennium Bug, where all the Pee Cees in the
world suddenly revert to 01/01/1980 on 01/01/2000?  Well, it hit the Lisa
on 01/01/1996.  Anyone got a patch to fix it?  Hmmm...How about a 68000
disassembler for the IIgs...)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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