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[news] CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF ITS ART OF CODE SERIES

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CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF 
ITS ART OF CODE SERIES

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«Mountain View, CA – Jan. 19, 2023: The Computer History Museum (CHM), 
the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on 
the human experience, today announced the public release and long-term 
preservation of the source code for the Apple Lisa, including its system 
and applications software, as part of its Art of Code series. Forty 
years ago today, Apple, Inc. released the Lisa computer, a milestone in 
computing history for its innovative use of a graphical user interface 
(GUI) in a personal computer (PC).

The Apple Lisa shipped with a suite of applications including a word 
processor, spreadsheet, and charts—bundled with the system—which 
discouraged third party developers from writing their own software for 
it. The Lisa’s GUI was inspired by elements from Xerox PARC’s Smalltalk 
system, but also included new innovations that were validated by user 
testing. The Lisa sold for $9,995, two years after Xerox had released a 
commercial GUI-based workstation – the Star – for $16,595, which was 
similarly targeted towards office workers. The high price of both 
machines compared to the IBM PC, a command-line based PC released two 
years earlier and that retailed for $1,565, resulted in their eventual 
demise.

Following Lisa’s launch in 1983, the Lisa 2 series was announced in 
January 1984 alongside the Apple Macintosh (known today as “Mac”). The 
Macintosh competed with Lisa and ultimately became the favored computer 
for its lower price and open software ecosystem. Other GUI-based 
operating systems like Windows were released after the Lisa and the 
Macintosh and were heavily influenced by both.

Hansen Hsu, Curator of the Software History Center at the Computer 
History Museum, said, “The release of the Apple Lisa was a key turning 
point for the history of personal computers. Without the Lisa, today’s 
computers might not use mouse-driven GUIs, and perhaps the Macintosh, 
and even Microsoft Windows, might not exist either. We’re thrilled to 
publicly release the source code for the Apple Lisa—for the first 
time—and thank Apple, Inc. for their permission and support that led to 
this release.”

For download options and more information about the release of this 
historic source code, please visit the blog post here and or download 
the source code here. For more information on the Art of Code series 
please visit the site here.
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link alla pagina di download, previa iscrizione:
https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code

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[news] CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF ITS ART OF CODE SERIES zfk <zfkirone@gmail.com> - 2023-01-22 08:23 +0100
  Re: [news] CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF ITS ART OF CODE SERIES Ammammata <ammammata@tiscali.it> - 2023-01-22 11:38 +0000
  Re: [news] CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF ITS ART OF CODE SERIES Filippo Zamengo <zfkirone@gmail.com> - 2023-01-23 02:24 -0800
    Re: [news] CHM MAKES APPLE LISA SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS A PART OF ITS ART OF CODE SERIES Giuseppe³ <miaooaim@tiscali.it> - 2023-01-23 22:27 +0100

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