Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

["Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay@napanet.net>]

"Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote in message
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> Raymond Wiker wrote:
> > The Lisa is no longer cutting edge, either. It may have been
> > at some point; but even that is debatable - it may equally well be
> > considered just a refinement of various ideas originating at Xerox and
> > elsewhere.
>
> It was, but as such - the first GUI to go into a *personal* computer,
> not a high-tech lab prototype - it was cutting edge indeed. Especially
> if you add up all the specs on the hardware as well (MMU, soft shutdown,
>   etc)

...being able to have two files with the same name, dealing with documents
instead of applications, redundant disk information for recovery reasons,
built-in data protection, environment window, service mode, easy
disassembly, MacWorks, a hardware architecture so complex that no working
emulator exists up to this day...

:)




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