Even when development started in summer '79 it took twice as long as Apple expected, not only because they had to get rid of Jobs first. So LISA wasn't launched earlier than 1983 with 1Mb RAM for almost U$D 10K. The project was a $50 million investment for Apple Inc., and kept losses low since it sold almost 5K units annually. After 27 months it was in-house competition that buried the Lisa computers, litterally. In the end it was a zero sum game for Apple, but a huge step for modern graphic user-interfaces and more personal computers.
@itsfoss Truly owning my OS, and feeling safe using my software without the looming threat of unwanted amounts of tracking following me around everywhere 😃
At least that's how it started. After a while, I also fell in love with the Open Source philosophy as a whole, thus leading me to double down on #Linux and using it exclusively. Thanks to everyone who contribute their time and knowledge to these projects, you're heroes! 🦸 🦸♀️ ✊
On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, introduced the world to Linux through an online post. Linus Torvalds developed the kernel, initially shared as source code, and later as bootable floppy disk images, becoming much popular years later!
Early distributions included Torvalds's "Boot-Root" images, MCC Interim Linux, Softlanding Linux System (SLS), H.J. Lu's "bootable rootdisks," and Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, a commercial distribution.