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by webwielder 4384 days ago
The Lisa UI looks clunky and ugly to modern eyes (akin to though not as bad as other early GUIs like Windows 1.0 and OS/2 Presentation Manager), while the original Macintosh still looks clean and well thought out.

Goes to show you why you shouldn't kick Steve Jobs off of your project.
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_pmf_ 4384 days ago
> Goes to show you why you shouldn't kick Steve Jobs off of your project.

Does absolutely everything related to Apple have to turn into a Steve Jobs memorial wank?

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rbanffy 4383 days ago
I really prefer the way Lisa hid the applications and used an office supplies metaphor to create documents rather than opening an application, generating the document and then saving it.
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