Apple releases Lisa source code on landmark machine's 40th birthday
Nor, as it happens, did the Lisa. At $9,995 for a basic system , its sales were not exactly comparable to hotcakes. It's worth noting that a Xerox Star system of the same era cost $75,000 – so at 10 grand, Lisa was only slightly terrifyingly priced.
Even so, Apple was already working on a cheaper and more reliable GUI-based computer, the Macintosh. After a short period in which Apple competed with itself, the Lisa was retired. But by bringing the mouse and WIMPiness to mainstream attention, it set the scene for decades of computing history. The machine's source code has been released under Apple's Academic License. That allows use and modification of the code, but not redistribution or – curiously – publishing benchmark results describing the long-moribund code's performance. The download is just 7MB, and expands to 26MB. Fonts and applications are included.
Sadly, there are no instructions on how to whip up a Lisa VM. If you really want to try the ancient machine, an enthusiast has created an emulator you can find
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