The Lisa (was: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt)

Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote or quoted:

Soon thereafter, Apple was ballyhooing the Mac so I borrowed a Mac for
a week, then went into the Apple Store and had a look:
Me: So, how do you program it?

  IIRC at one point in time around 1981, the answer was:

  You buy a Lisa. The "Lisa Workshop" is the development system
  for the Mac.

  (At that time, I was asked to write software on a Lisa, but my
  offer exceeded the client's price point.)

  (After a few years, Macintosh-native development system were
  developed.)