Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

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

Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:

(referring to the Lisa...)
: You would think it would be better, for 4X or 2X the price, depending on 
: whether you're talking the first Lisa or a Lisa 2. I have a Mac 128, Lisa 2,
: and Mac XL. I prefer running system 1.1 on the 128 over Lisa Office 7/7 on the
: Lisa type boxes. It works more like IIgs system 6.0 and Mac system 7.5. Lisa's
: OS reminds me of Windows, having to double click the icon thingy at the top 
: left of a window to close it for example. I prefer the Mac system  partly
: because it works like I'm used to I suppose, and I don't know how to use Lisa
: Office System so hot.

I have a Lisa 2/5 running the Lisa Office System 7/7.  Unfortunately, the
"Year 2000" bug that you may have heard about (us IIgs people seem to be
off the hook until, I think 2047...) hit the Lisa on 01/01/1996.  So I
guess the Lisa Office System was only given a ten-year lifetime.  Talk
about planned obsolescence!

Anyway, I thought it interesting when MacOS System 7 was launched, how a
number of the features of the Lisa Office System which were dropped in the
Macintosh Finder were resurrected in MacOS 7...off-hand, I'm thinking of
seamless program switching and the use of stationery pads.  The Lisa is a
neat box.  Unfortunately, the 5Mb ProFile is *really* noisy...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
(Computers in the house:  Lisa 2/5, Apple ][e (*3), Apple IIgs, Psion S3a.
 Oh, and there is a Pentium box around here somewhere, but I only use it
 to play "Theme Park")
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