as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985
the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready
the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:
Jerome Domurat worked at Atari from November 1981 through July 1986 as an artist and interface designer. He started creating art for the home game systems,...
The Atari 260ST. There's a lot of misinformation circulating about this model on the internet, including the "fact" that it was only released with 256K of RA...
source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back
now that's how you publicly license historical source code
GEM is truly truly outrageous
in reply to GEM is truly truly outrageous • • •and may still have the TOS development system on its hard drive
http://homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Apple_Lisa2_5_Atari.html
could be the same one on the far right in the photo!
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa
HCM: The Home Computer Museum ...
homecomputer.deGEM is truly truly outrageous
in reply to GEM is truly truly outrageous • • •probably using that Apple Imagewriter
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST
https://youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637
Atari 260ST Story: TOS Floppy Boot Process, And How Much RAM?
YouTubeGEM is truly truly outrageous
in reply to GEM is truly truly outrageous • • •source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back
now that's how you publicly license historical source code
and people have gotten it to run!
with a full GEM desktop!
it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=20964
http://www.alternative-system.com/en/revive-gemdos-for-lisa/
http://compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/Software/GemDos/
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM
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