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Running A Web Server On An Apple Lisa 2

Posted by timothy on from the walking-to-school-through-the-snow dept.

pinqkandi writes: "Saw this come along the MacHTTP discussion list; some one got an Apple Lisa 2 running a web server. Quite an impressive feat. Be quick to check it out - they expect to shut it down about 8am CST on 1/2/02."

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  1. Apple is rewriting history by markj02 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From the Apple Lisa link:

    the Lisa (pictured below left) was supposed to be the Next Big Thing. It was the first personal computer to use a Graphical User Interface.

    The Lisa was not the first GUI-based personal computer: Xerox, Apollo, and Sun all beat them to it by several years. The Lisa was a pretty blatant clone of Xerox's machines and it failed for the same reasons: it was too expensive and marketed to the wrong people. Only when Apple shipped a very stripped down machine called the "Mac" and marketed it to a different group of people did they finally succeed.