> The Lisa was an important product which failed, in part because it cost $10,000; the Mac became the PC industry’s longest-running, most influential line of co

> The Lisa was an important product which failed, in part because it cost $10,000; the Mac became the PC industry’s longest-running, most influential line of computers. Conceptually, every modern PC — including those that run Windows and Linux — descends from it. Linux... descends from the Mac? Talk about reality distortion on a grandiose scale. Not to mention the fact that the original IBM PC and its descendants trump that Mac when it comes to be the "industry’s longest-running, most influential line of computers".