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Source code for Apple's legendary Lisa operating system to be released for free in 2018
You'll soon be able to take a huge trip down memory lane when it comes to Apple's computer efforts. The Computer History Museum has announced that the source code for the Lisa, Apple's computer that predated the Mac, has been recovered and is being reviewed by Apple itself...
The announcement was made by Al Kossow, a Software Curator at the Computer History Museum. Kossow says that source code for both the operating system and applications has been recovered. Once that code is finished being reviewed by Apple, the Computer History Museum will make the code available sometime in 2018.
While you've been able to run emulators of the Lisa operating system before, this is notable as it's not just a third-party hack solution, but rather Apple is directly involved and the full code will be available for everyone.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 30 2017, @01:07AM
Not really. For example, gemstone is an object db that has been used in production for 30 years, so institution listed in http://consortium.pharo.org/ [pharo.org] have surely good reasons to prefer dealing with a lot of objects using smalltalk rather than the comparatively new kid on the block java.
But I don't know any power users using a smalltalk environment both as IDE to prototype new functionality and as a desktop to play with those objects, instead of shuffling data between apps. I would not be surprised if some Pharo user managed just that though.
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