Apple's Original Graphical OS "Lisa" Available for Free in 2018
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 12/28/2017 06:10 AM
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The Computer History Museum's Al Kossow has revealed that the source code for Apple's Lisa's operating system and programs should be published for free sometime in 2018.
Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh (1984)
Kossow has recovered the sources to the operating system and applications and converted them to Unix end of line conventions and spaces for Pascal tabs after recovering the files using Disk Image Chef.
They are currently with Apple for review. After that's done, The Computer History Museum will do a blog post about the historical significance of the software and the code that is cleared for release by Apple will be made available in 2018.
The only expected missing piece will be the American Heritage dictionary for the spell checker in LisaWrite.
We're hoping that it can be run as a dual boot or better yet, in a virtual machine for nostalgia. Lisa was expensive at $9,995, so many of us never had the chance.
Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh (1984)
Kossow has recovered the sources to the operating system and applications and converted them to Unix end of line conventions and spaces for Pascal tabs after recovering the files using Disk Image Chef.
They are currently with Apple for review. After that's done, The Computer History Museum will do a blog post about the historical significance of the software and the code that is cleared for release by Apple will be made available in 2018.
The only expected missing piece will be the American Heritage dictionary for the spell checker in LisaWrite.
We're hoping that it can be run as a dual boot or better yet, in a virtual machine for nostalgia. Lisa was expensive at $9,995, so many of us never had the chance.
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