Re-Introducing the First, and Fully Functional, Lisa Emulator
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Jan 24 11:34:30 CST 2007
> In many ways, as I watched Lisa Office System and MacWorks boot up (via
> trace logs), I saw many glimpses into the software design ideals and
> practices of the early 80's. I've never been an archaeologist, and
> don't really know that experience, I can guess at the rush and thrill of
> discovery. Seeing the machine code of various Lisa OS's fly by has been
> that experience for me. I could almost understand what the coders that
> wrote them were thinking, how they designed things, and why. I could
> easily tell what code was hand written assembly by an expert, or novice,
> what assembly was generated by compilers.
PLEASE write document the details while this is all fresh in
your mind.
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