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>It's been three years and six months since Apple first showed the
>Lisa.
>
>Now, after herculean investments of time, effort, and money on the
>part of Apple, the developer community, and the user community, it
>appears that we haven't moved forward much at all.  The up-and coming
>Mac (likely to be a few months away), will probably have 1 Meg of
>memory, a 12" screen, slots, Andy Hertzfeld's Servant (a new desktop
>manager), HFS, and MacApp (Apple's new commercial object-oriented
>Pascal) for development, and a Unix option.  It should also have 2
>800K floppies and a hard disk drive.  This machine bears more than a
>superficial resemblance to the original Lisa of January 1983.  Sure,
>it costs less, and there are more applications available, but its
>basic characteristics don't show the 3 1/2 years that have passed
>since the Lisa's introduction.  One would expect that it would have
>taken far less time to deliver an affordable system that employs
>(almost exculsively) established Lisa techonology.
>
>Any comments?

Sure.  Lisa was WAY ahead of its time and way ahead of the market in terms of
sophistication.  If you're a businessman, marketplace success is the ONLY
yardstick.  If you're a human being you realize that people don't always make
smart purchasing decisions.  Or am I wrong, and the PC does it all?

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply!)