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Lisa2:
I am running MW+II 2.5.3. This is the keypad CP, note I had James add the "use option as Ctrl" buttons many many years ago. Otherwise it's impossible to get a control key as SoftPC thinks this is MacPlus keyboard with an "=" key on the numpad.
Lisa2:
--- Quote from: rayarachelian on October 05, 2021, 12:21:22 pm ---Other than this poor Lisa will feel dirty and slimy from having had to do run PC software. Be sure to give it a thorough cleaning afterwards.
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Note that the Lisa System Overview brochure dated Jan 1984 specifically states that MS-DOS will be available in the (future) !
I just wanted you to know that it is now the future and MS-DOS is running on a Lisa....
Rick
rayarachelian:
That is interesting, I wonder what they had in mind. Expansion slot co-processor card maybe? or MSFT porting MS-DOS to 68000?
blusnowkitty:
--- Quote from: rayarachelian on October 05, 2021, 10:45:10 pm ---That is interesting, I wonder what they had in mind. Expansion slot co-processor card maybe? or MSFT porting MS-DOS to 68000?
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I'm sure it would have been an 8088 expansion card given DOS was written entirely in x86 assembly which would have been a pain to port to pure 68000 assembly. Then you'd have to deal with applications targeting x86 vs 68000, something they'd find out the hard way with ports of NT for x86, PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS R4000 and none of them being able to run programs for the other architecture... Not like today where our computers are so powerful we can just brute force emulate/translate like Rosetta and SysWOW64 on ARM Windows!
Lisa2:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on October 06, 2021, 01:19:00 am ---I'm sure it would have been an 8088 expansion card given DOS was written entirely in x86 assembly which would have been a pain to port to pure 68000 assembly....
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True, but at the time Microsoft was no slave to x86. They had 8080 (Z80), 6502, 8086 (8088), and 6809 versions of Basic. I am sure if the marketed had demanded it a 68000 version MS-DOS was possible, especially considering CP/M 68K was already a thing.
Point is that unlike the Macintosh, the Lisa was designed to support multiple operating systems. ( Yet running MacOS on Lisa seems to get no love.. )
Rick
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