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Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Lisa
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.324
Posted: Mon Jan 24 16:22:58 1983
Received: Mon Jan 31 03:16:25 1983

From:  Winston Edmond 

   The January 31, 1983 issue of InfoWorld (Vol. 5, #5) has an article on
the Lisa.  It apparently was announced at an Apple shareholders meeting
on January 19.  I've excerpted a few paragraphs from that article:

   "The Lisa user interface closely resembles that of the Xerox Star
minicomputer, a system that is based on the metaphor of the electronic
desktop. ...
   "The Lisa operating system, which is largely hidden from the user by a
visual menu-oriented user interface, is implemented in Pascal and can run
several processes concurrently. ...
   "As it is initially released, Lisa will run BASIC, Pascal and COBOL...
   "The system will also support both Microsoft's XENIX and Digital
Research's CP/M operating system.
   "Apple is also experimenting internally with the Smalltalk language
designed by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, but it has not announced
support for that language. ...
   "Apple also stressed its commitment to making the Lisa an open system
for independent software developers.  ...
   "Lisa also has three internal expansion slots.  One will be utilized by
the AppleNet local-area network transceiver ...  and the others are
reserved for future products, with memory expansion as an option. ...
   "The Lisa will allow the selection of any of 15 different fonts and a
variety of font sizes.
   "Lisa is Apple's answer to the needs of what the company believes is
the largest untapped market for personal computers: the white-collar
office worker.  Barry Smith claims that 15 million office workers,
including managers, professionals and administrative assistants, are
potential candidates for the Lisa.
   "To go after this market, Apple plans to deploy some of its dealers
(about 100 to begin with and eventually as many as 300 of the 1300
existing Apple dealers), complemented by the company's own National
Account Program that was established nine months ago, to seek out Fortune
1000 corporate sales."


	The issue of InfoWorld also has articles on the Apple IIe, the
Commodore 128, the Timex/Sinclair 2000 (48K, color graphics, $199.95), and the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  (SNL fans: There's a game to help save
Mr. Bill and Spot from Sluggo and Mr. Hands called Mr. Bill's Neighborhood.)
 -WBE