Blast from the Past: Apple Lisa Emulator

Ted Hodges over at Low End Mac turned up this fascinating Lisa Emulator developed by Ray Arachelian. After obtaining a copy of the Lisa ROM and the Lisa OS, Hodges gave the emulator a spin. His post shows many great screen shots of the Lisa in action. I hadn't known that all Lisa applications were always-on. (There was no "Quit" in Lisa.) And the "tearing off stationary to create new documents" metaphor was pretty amazing, too. Also, I'd forgotten that the Lisa offered preemptive multitasking! There really are too many cool Lisa features to list here, so pop over and read his entire post.

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Source: http://lowendmac.com/hodges/07/0227.html

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Ted Hodges over at Low End Mac turned up this fascinating Lisa Emulator developed by Ray Arachelian. After obtaining a copy of the Lisa...

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Alex Cormier

Thats sweet

March 11 2007 at 4:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nick

The Lisa was cooperative multitasking, not preemptive. They just managed to code their menu bars to not block the rest of the system. ;)

March 10 2007 at 10:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roger

Oops, should have said OpenDoc since CyberDog was really just one part of that project.

March 05 2007 at 9:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roger

While I've seen a Lisa (should have bought it when I had the chance) I never knew the operating system worked that way. I believe the document oriented stuff eventually made it's way to Apple's CyberDog project. I'd really like to see CyberDog resurface, there were some cool ideas there.

March 05 2007 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

That is pretty cool. I intend to try it out once the DL site is running.

March 05 2007 at 7:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply