Editing Apple Lisa (section)

====Third-party software====
[[File:Apple Lisa Workshop.png|thumb|Lisa Workshop]]
The launch version of Lisa Office System can not be used for programming, requiring the separate development OS called Lisa Workshop to be toggled and booted. Lisa Workshop was also used to develop Macintosh software for its first few years, until a Macintosh-native development system was released.{{when|date=November 2024}} For most of its lifetime, the Lisa only had the original seven applications that Apple had deemed enough to "do everything".{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} UniPress Software released [[UNIX System III]] for {{US$|495|1983|long=no|round=-2}}.<ref name="byte198312">{{cite magazine | title=Unix Spoken Here / and MS-DOS, and VMS too! | magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]] | date=December 1983 | access-date=March 8, 2016 | pages=334 | volume=8 | number=12 | type=advertisement | url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n335/mode/1up}}</ref>

[[Santa Cruz Operation]] (SCO) published [[Microsoft]] [[Xenix]] (version 3), a [[Unix-like]] [[command-line interface|command-line]] operating system for the Lisa 2, and Microsoft's [[Multiplan]] 2.1 spreadsheet for Xenix.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Photograph of Lisa Xenix Multiplan diskette |language=en |url=https://postlmg.cc/BXsws9Mt |access-date=September 24, 2019 |format=JPEG |publisher=Postimg.com }}</ref> Other Lisa Xenix apps include Quadratron's Q-Office suite.<ref name="stmac198407_quadratron">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/st.mac-1984-07/page/n55/mode/1up | title=Quadratron's Lisa Office System | magazine=ST.Mac | date=July 1984 | access-date=July 27, 2024 | volume=1 | issue=6 | pages=54 }}</ref>

UniPress Software also provided a version of [[Unix System V]] for the Lisa 2, offering a C compiler and "Berkeley enhancements" such as [[vi (text editor)|vi]] and the [[C shell]], supporting hard drives ranging from 20&nbsp;MB to 100&nbsp;MB along with Ethernet connectivity. Additional applications could be purchased from UniPress, and a less expensive single-user edition was also sold for {{US$|495|1984|long=no|round=-2}} alongside the {{US$|1495|1984|long=no|round=-2}} multi-user edition. A variety of other programming languages were supported by the operating system.<ref name="byte198412_lisa2"/>