Re: 8-bit Apple models

[gt2011a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2011a SIMMS,WILLIAM SHELDON)]

In article <De5m1B2w165w@cola.pax.tpa.com.au> kkenn@cola.pax.tpa.com.au (Kristian Kennaway) writes:
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>Coming in just before the Apple ][e is the Apple Lisa, a machine which 
>cost almost US$10000, and was a direct precursor to the Mac's user 
>interface. A few years later, they released the Lisa 2, which was 
>basically the same machine with a few enhancements.
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Recently I went to the library and was reading old Apple II magazines
and one of them from early 1983 had an article on the brand new
Apple Lisa. I was amazed when I read the article at how incredible the
Lisa was, especially for 1983, especially compared to the Mac which
came after it. - Multitasking, Virtual Memory, 24 bit color support in
ROM (though it had a 1-bit monitor). It's too bad it cost so much...

By the way, when I first got a mouse for my Apple //e I was confused
about why the Mousepaint program had those weird window titlebars and
close boxes - Different from the "normal" Mac interface. It wasn't until
a few years later that I figured out that Mousepaint was modeled after
the Lisa...

-Sheldon

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