From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!rwg
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: More LISA notes
Article-I.D.: mi-cec.228
Posted: Mon Feb 7 11:57:09 1983
Received: Fri Feb 11 00:55:22 1983
A couple more LisaPoints (Zarquon! I've caught LisaFever):
- Has Apple implicitly admitted that the one-button mouse was a mistake in the
form of functions which require you to press SHIFT-?
- There was a LISA running Smalltalk at the C-MU demo. Not being a Smalltalk
fan, I didn't pay much attention, but I think it will not be marketed unless
a miracle makes it much faster. The salesman said something like "The 68000
is not a good Smalltalk architecture; you really need a Dorado, and we were
not interested in marketing a $180,000 Apple."
- The impression I get is that the Profile was not supposed to be standard,
but that the OS got so large, Apple was forced to throw it in. That crummy
disk can't be too expensive; the most remarkable thing about it is that they
still have a supplier for them. It reminds me of the PERQ's disk.
Rich (decvax!idis!mi-cec!rwg at Ucb-C70)
P.S.: Sorry if this is badly munged; I'm testing a new 'post' shell script.