learning from Lisa

[riffraff]

These are just a few things that Apple's Lisa computer had (remember, this was back in 1983):

• pre-emptive multitasking
  
• a graphical user interface
  
• an intuitive document-oriented system (as opposed to today's application-oriented computers)
  
• automatic saving of changes
  
• versioning (in fact, "saving" merely created new versions)
  
• persistence (turn the

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[jerronimo]

let's also not forget the "innovation" that came with a recent OS X version, which moved some finder/gui/graphics processing off onto the video card... AKA Quartz Extreme... that was pioneered by the Amiga back in 1985... which did have fully pre-emptive multitasking, in 4 colors