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>In article <1127@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes:
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>      This is straying a bit from comp.arch, but I've wanted to ask
>   this ever since the MacII came out. The Lisa used a 68000 running
>   at something like 8Mhz. Now that 68030-based MacII's are in
>   production at ??Mhz, has anyone at Apple dusted off the old Lisa
>   OS to see what it could do with a bit more horsepower behind it?
>   I once saw a comment from someone who had bought a Lisa as part
>   of an early Mac development system: "very slow, but *very*
>   powerful".
>

 Hmm, when I got my Lisa, now used as a file server, it had the Lisa
system and a couple of Lisa programs on its Hard Disk. When I recall
it right these were LisaTerminal, LisaDraw, LisaWrite, LisaChart, 
LisaCalc, Calculator and what's more..

 Except for its slowness I was VERY impressed by the operating
system's capabilities. At times I realise that only now, with MultiFinder
and such, the Mac is on the same level the Lisa was years ago.
 On the Lisa there's no difference between DAs and applications, and I
couldn't even tell whether the Trash Can was in fact a separate
Application or a feature of the OS. Folders, the Trash, DAs and 
Applications behaved almost exactly in the same way, and the whole
idea of using Templates instead of a New menu item was excellent!

 In other words, I was impressed!

 But now my Lisa has degraded to being a file server :)


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