With Apple source code, you can create your own ‘Apple Lisa’ system

Original title: From the source code, users can now create their own “Apple Lisa”, which CHM calls “Apple’s most influential failure”

News from IT House on January 23, the Computer History Museum (CHM), headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of the Apple Lisa, today released all source code, including system and application software. CHM published a blog post again a few days ago, introducing how to use these source codes to modify and create the Apple Lisa system by itself.

CHM called the Lisa “Apple’s most influential failure,” citing the Lisa’s mouse-driven GUI as a precursor to more successful machines such as the Macintosh. And in the blog post, it is also speculated that if there is no Lisa, there may be no Windows operating system.

The post goes on to detail Lisa’s development, release, and eventual commercial failure. IT House netizens who are interested in the history of Apple Lisa technology can go to check it out.

The distribution of Lisa’s source code means that you can use it on your own machine. However, that doesn’t mean you can use it all you want. Apple’s code license agreement states that source code is used only for “non-commercial, academic research, educational teaching, and personal study purposes.”

Depending on the terms, you can:

use, copy, compile and modify the Apple Software,

to run the Apple Software and your modifications to it on your hardware,

Copy and refer to the documentation accompanying the Apple software.

However, you cannot:

redistribute, publish, sublicense, sell, rent or transfer the Apple Software;

publish benchmark test results about the Apple Software or your use of it;

Use Apple’s name, trademarks, service marks or logos to endorse or promote your modifications to the Apple Software or other materials.