As my recent long winded posts have already proven, I've fallen in love with the Lisa Office System. I'm absolutely blown away by it. For years I had thought that the Lisa's operating system was pretty much the same as the Mac OS that followed, but with a slightly different look. But now I realize how different it was and why it cost what it did, and it's really too bad they couldn't have done it for the Macintosh price.
Anyways, I've found a couple of other similarities between the Lisa and Mac OS X:
- As this animated screenshot of the menus in Lisa Write show, there were distinct shadows underneath the menus. Due to the two bit graphics of the time, the shadow on one side looks like an outline, but by looking at the shape on the bottom half of the menu you can see that it's intended to be a shadow. The Mac OS had small shadows too, but they're much less noticable.
- The Lisa 2, released at the same time as the Macintosh, came with software called MacWorks, which was Macintosh emulation software (since the Lisa had considerably more hardware resources than the Macintosh, it could do this). Mmmm, smells sortof like Classic
Silly things. But, what can I say? I'm infatuated.
