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No, they stole the Windows hourglass from theĪnyway, you've seen the startup process - now down toįirst off, the Lisa really does act differently from otherįor instance, you don't open LisaWrite, LisaDraw, or any otherĪpplication, select the type of document you want to make, then

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Mac when they made Windows: the hourglass (the classic Mac OS showsĪ wristwatch). Notice there is one thing that Microsoft didn't steal from the When you turn the Lisa on, this is the first thing you see: I'm going to show you several features of the LOS - I made overĪ dozen screen shots to help demonstrate. I got a copy of LOS 7/7 Version 3.1, installed it on the Profileĭisk image, and started up the virtual Lisa. Got a ROM, and found a copy of the LOS, both of which are necessary I, like many others, have been waiting for years for thisĮmulator to be up and running, so, I downloaded the Lisa emulator, Ray Arachelian, creator of the Lisa Emulator Project, hasįinally created a working Lisa emulator (for more on that, see Reason was that the emulator project didn't have a working LisaĮmulator, and neither did anyone else - until now. Had never had a chance to use the Lisa Office System (LOS). Is temporarily inaccessible as they replace a failed hard Eight years ago, when I was 11, I came across the Lisa Emulator Project.
