26 Jun
1997
26 Jun
'97
9:07 a.m.
However, the
Lisa still lives on. Every time you pull down a window
you're using Lisa technology. Lisa was also the first to have an
integrated office suite which could cut-n-paste between apps. Xerox
provided much of the inspiration, but Lisa polished the GUI into a usable
system. It's really quite impressive for a machine designed 78-81 and
released in 82.
Actually, Xerox had a working GUI-based system (the name eludes me at the
moment) well before the LISA, which is where Jobs got his inspiration
from. So your comment about windows being based on Lisa technology is
not fair to Xerox. Of course Bill would disavow any knowledge of both of
these machines and tell us that Windows is, in fact, the One True God. from Xerox.
One of the things that originated in the Lisa GUI that never was used
anywhere else was the concept of a "pad of paper". In order to create a
new LisaWrite document, you "tore off" a pice of LisaWrite paper off the
LisaWrite pad. Kind of an odd concept... not particularly useful.
Okay... I'll shut up about the Lisa now... :)
-starling