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The Corvus Concept beat it to market, had a higher resolution bitmapped screen with square pixels, was built on top of the same SVS Pascal compiler as Lisa, and
by bitsavers 4y ago
The Corvus Concept beat it to market, had a higher resolution bitmapped screen with square pixels, was built on top of the same SVS Pascal compiler as Lisa,
and vanished because it's software was primitive, barely using the capabilities
of the screen and had softkeys like the HP Amigo and no mouse.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/corvus/Corvus_Concept/ http://bitsavers.org/pdf/corvus/Corvus_Concept/
It's essentially what Lisa would have been if the UI direction hadn't changed because of Apple's exposure to the PARC Alto (which also had a 606x808 screen with square pixels).
Fun fact:
Mike Cook, the person who designed the Corvus Concept hardware, ended up going to Apple and
designed the board for the LaserWriter II.
- masswerk 4y agoI didn't know the Corvus Concept, at all – thank you! Skimming the user manual, there's a label window below the screen, very similar to the soft function keys approach of the early Lisa concepts, indeed.