If reports are to be believed, Apple’s legendary and historical operating system, Lisa will soon be released by The Computer History Museum situated in California. The OS will be for free as an open source this year.
The source code of the Apple's Lisa computer which predates the Mac has been recovered and it's being reviewed by Apple itself, according to the Computer History Museum. Apple Lisa is a desktop developed by Apple released on January 19, 1983 and was one of the first personal computers to offer a graphical user interface in a machine aimed at individual business users.
It also happened to be the first personal computer by Apple to feature support for a mouse.
Al Kossow, a software curator at the museum reiterated, "Just wanted to let everyone know the sources to the OS and applications were recovered, I converted them to Unix end of line conventions and spaces for Pascal tabs after recovering the files using Disk Image Chef, and they are with Apple for review."
Once the code is reviewed by the Apple developers, the museum will make the code available to everyone later this year and it will be free.
Only 10,000 units of Lisa were sold and despite being a flop, the operating system still holds a major role in the history of Apple.
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