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Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface

by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:35am PDT  |  Image 52 of 53

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Atkinson added two related features to meet the burgeoning needs of the Lisa applications: pictures and scaling. Pictures were a way of recording graphics operations into a data structure for later playback; this became the basis of both the printing architecture and also cutting and pasting graphics.

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