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For the record, it credits Nathan Lineback's GUI gallery as the source. Here's the actual source page: http://toastytech.com/guis/lisa3.html http://toastytech.

For the record, it credits Nathan Lineback's GUI gallery as the source. Here's the actual source page: http://toastytech.com/guis/lisa3.html http://toastytech.com/guis/lisa3.html > Using the Macworks software, the Lisa can also run Macintosh software. > This screen shot shows the Lisa emulator running the Macintosh operating system using Macworks. Supposedly with a little bit of hardware tweaking a real Apple Lisa can run up to MacOS 7.5.5. > This lets the Lisa run the vast amount of software developed for the earlier Macs. Which was a good thing as there was apparently very little software developed to run natively on the Lisa OS.

riccarbi 8y ago
Hi everyone, I am the guy who wrote that article. Though you have pretty demolished my English ;), I want to thank you all. I apologize for my bad English; yet, your attention, suggestions, and remarks really will help me writing better articles, as well as to improve those I have written in the past. About the grammar / spelling errors. Yes, English is not my first language; I am Italian and, though I'm always trying to make my best to avoid errors and typos, I am aware that something wrong will always come out in my texts. Sometimes it is just a typo (such as weather / whether) which is rather easy to amend. Sometimes what's wrong there are short pieces of texts, phrases, or even entire paragraphs that I wrote thinking in Italian and writing in English, thus clearly revealing that English is not my first language. These are much harder for me to catch, since their grammar is often not totally wrong, strictly speaking; yet, they sound odd or even absurd to a native English speaker. About technical / historical inaccuracies: I am not an IT engineer, I am an architect, and a professor of product design and computer aided design; I am more a tech enthusiast than an IT professional, though I am also an amateur programmer and someone who likes to build his own computers since the 1980s. Therefore, I focus my articles more on product design than on technology; even if I always try to collect as many technical details as I can from reliably sources, I can, and often do, make mistakes. Again, your remarks are highly valuable to me, because they help me correct those inaccurate / wrong information I am giving to my readers, though I made them bona fide. As amyjess correctly pointed out, the screenshot of the Lisa is from the Nathan Lineback's GUI emulator website, I know it's not the best example to show; unfortunately, I haven't able to find a single screenshot of a real Lisa with an acceptable image quality so far. A friend of mine who has been Apple's product manager for both the Lisa and the Macintosh still has a functioning Lisa; I'll ask him to let me take a photo of the GUI on the real machine to replace the one I used. I didn't included the iMac intentionally; by and large, the article is essentially a comparison between the Lisa and the Mac, and I deem the iMac design too different from theirs to be part of that comparison. Yet, I am currently writing an article exclusively focused on the iMac. The circumstances in which Jobs left the Lisa team. Aside from my horrible grammar error :(, I agree with you, daotoad. That point needs to detailed a little more. Therefore, I rewrote the whole paragraph and added a reference. I sincerely apologize for the mistakes I made in that article, hope it looks a bit better now. Again, guys, thank you so much for your help.
- smhenderson 8y ago
  Spelling and grammar aside I really enjoyed the article and I appreciate the effort you put into writing it.

riccarbi 8y ago

Hi everyone, I am the guy who wrote that article. Though you have pretty demolished my English ;), I want to thank you all. I apologize for my bad English; yet, your attention, suggestions, and remarks really will help me writing better articles, as well as to improve those I have written in the past. About the grammar / spelling errors. Yes, English is not my first language; I am Italian and, though I'm always trying to make my best to avoid errors and typos, I am aware that something wrong will always come out in my texts. Sometimes it is just a typo (such as weather / whether) which is rather easy to amend. Sometimes what's wrong there are short pieces of texts, phrases, or even entire paragraphs that I wrote thinking in Italian and writing in English, thus clearly revealing that English is not my first language. These are much harder for me to catch, since their grammar is often not totally wrong, strictly speaking; yet, they sound odd or even absurd to a native English speaker. About technical / historical inaccuracies: I am not an IT engineer, I am an architect, and a professor of product design and computer aided design; I am more a tech enthusiast than an IT professional, though I am also an amateur programmer and someone who likes to build his own computers since the 1980s. Therefore, I focus my articles more on product design than on technology; even if I always try to collect as many technical details as I can from reliably sources, I can, and often do, make mistakes. Again, your remarks are highly valuable to me, because they help me correct those inaccurate / wrong information I am giving to my readers, though I made them bona fide. As amyjess correctly pointed out, the screenshot of the Lisa is from the Nathan Lineback's GUI emulator website, I know it's not the best example to show; unfortunately, I haven't able to find a single screenshot of a real Lisa with an acceptable image quality so far. A friend of mine who has been Apple's product manager for both the Lisa and the Macintosh still has a functioning Lisa; I'll ask him to let me take a photo of the GUI on the real machine to replace the one I used. I didn't included the iMac intentionally; by and large, the article is essentially a comparison between the Lisa and the Mac, and I deem the iMac design too different from theirs to be part of that comparison. Yet, I am currently writing an article exclusively focused on the iMac. The circumstances in which Jobs left the Lisa team. Aside from my horrible grammar error :(, I agree with you, daotoad. That point needs to detailed a little more. Therefore, I rewrote the whole paragraph and added a reference. I sincerely apologize for the mistakes I made in that article, hope it looks a bit better now. Again, guys, thank you so much for your help.

smhenderson 8y ago
Spelling and grammar aside I really enjoyed the article and I appreciate the effort you put into writing it.