Apple Lisa OS

E379102

Apple Lisa OS is an early 1980s graphical operating system developed by Apple for the Lisa computer, notable for pioneering features like a desktop metaphor, windows, icons, and mouse-driven interaction.

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Label Occurrences
Apple Lisa OS canonical 7
Apple Lisa GUI 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf graphical user interface operating system
operating system
architecture monolithic OS with GUI environment
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developer Apple Inc.
surface form: Apple Computer, Inc.
distributionMedium floppy disk
firstReleaseDate 1983
hasComponent Lisa Office System software suite
surface form: Lisa Office System

Lisa Workshop (development environment)
historicalPeriod pre-Macintosh Apple operating systems
influenced Classic Mac OS
influencedBy Xerox PARC
surface form: Xerox PARC GUI research
inputMethod keyboard
mouse
kernelType cooperative multitasking
license proprietary software
notableFor early commercial GUI
influencing Apple Macintosh operating system design
pioneering desktop metaphor
operatingSystemFor Apple Lisa
platform Motorola 68000 family
surface form: Motorola 68000
programmingLanguage Pascal
releasePeriod early 1980s
status discontinued
supportsFeature clipboard
contextual menus
cooperative multitasking
dialog boxes
document-centric workflow
drag and drop
icon-based file representation
menus attached to windows
mouse pointer cursor
mouse-driven interaction
multitasking
overlapping windows
protected memory for applications
window-based file management
supportsFileSystem Lisa File System
targetUser business users
usedOnDevice Lisa 1
Lisa 2
userInterface desktop metaphor
graphical user interface
icons
menus
windows

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

LisaCalc operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
LisaDraw operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
LisaGraph operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
LisaProject operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
GEM desktop inspiredBy Apple Lisa OS
this entity surface form: Apple Lisa GUI
Lisa File System operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
Lisa Workshop operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS
LisaList operatingSystem Apple Lisa OS