Last time you saved, so every time you set aside your document, itīut say you screwed something up in your document? You can

The Lisa keeps track of all of the changes you made since the Say you started working on something last week, and the last Reference file that you can revert to at a later time. If you do tell it to save something, it makes a The LOS is totally document oriented.Īnother nice thing is that you never have to tell a Lisa to save The reason you can't quit is because all of the programs areĪlways open. Working on aside, Save and Continue, and Save and Put Away, but you You can set everything aside, set the document you are (It wasn't a feature on the Mac until OS XĪnother thing you'll notice about Lisa is that there is no Quit That's right - preemptive multitasking was a standard feature on (At least LisaĪnother thing Lisa had was preemptive multitasking, so youĬould hold a menu open and the rest of the system wouldn't Well, the Lisa's clock stopped rolling over in 1995. You might be wondering why I have the clock set to 2/25/95. I wonder why this isn't the way modern operating systems work. Then you open that piece of paper, and start writing (or Then you title the piece of paper you just tore off: Stationary (such as LisaDraw Paper or LisaWrite Paper) by double On the Lisa, you tear off a piece of paper from a Make the document, anhd then save it with a title like you would on any No, they stole the Windows hourglass from theĪnyway, you've seen the startup process - now down toįirst off, the Lisa really does act differently from otherįor instance, you don't open LisaWrite, LisaDraw, or any otherĪpplication, select the type of document you want to make, then Mac when they made Windows: the hourglass (the classic Mac OS showsĪ wristwatch). Notice there is one thing that Microsoft didn't steal from the

When you turn the Lisa on, this is the first thing you see: I'm going to show you several features of the LOS - I made overĪ dozen screen shots to help demonstrate. I got a copy of LOS 7/7 Version 3.1, installed it on the Profileĭisk image, and started up the virtual Lisa. Got a ROM, and found a copy of the LOS, both of which are necessary I, like many others, have been waiting for years for thisĮmulator to be up and running, so, I downloaded the Lisa emulator, Ray Arachelian, creator of the Lisa Emulator Project, hasįinally created a working Lisa emulator (for more on that, see Reason was that the emulator project didn't have a working LisaĮmulator, and neither did anyone else - until now. Had never had a chance to use the Lisa Office System (LOS). Is temporarily inaccessible as they replace a failed hard Eight years ago, when I was 11, I came across the Lisa Emulator Project.

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