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====Name==== Though the original documentation only refers to it as "The Lisa", Apple officially stated that the name was an [[acronym]] for "Local Integrated Software Architecture".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rogers |first1=Michael |title=The Birth of LISA |journal=Personal Computing |date=February 1983 |page=89 |url=https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing198302/page/n89/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Weiglin |first1=Peter C. |last2=Conklin |first2=Joyce |title=The Practical Guide to the Apple IIc |date=May 1984 |publisher=Addison-Wesley Publishing Company |isbn=0-201-09660-9 |page=21 |url=https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/The_Practical_Guide_to_the_Apple_IIc_1984.pdf}}</ref> Because Steve Jobs's first daughter was named [[Lisa Brennan-Jobs|Lisa]] (born in 1978), it was sometimes inferred that the name also had a personal association, and perhaps that the acronym was a [[backronym]] contrived later to fit the name. [[Andy Hertzfeld]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Andy Hertzfeld|author-link=Andy Hertzfeld|title=Revolution in the Valley |date=2005 | publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=0-596-00719-1 |chapter=Bicycle |page=36}}</ref> said that the acronym was reverse-engineered from the name "Lisa" in late 1982 by the Apple marketing team after they had hired a marketing consultancy firm to find names to replace "Lisa" and "Macintosh" (at the time considered by [[Jef Raskin]] to be merely internal project codenames) and then rejected all of the suggestions. Privately, Hertzfeld and the other software developers used "Lisa: Invented Stupid Acronym", a [[recursive acronym|recursive backronym]], and computer industry [[pundit]]s coined the term "Let's Invent Some Acronym" to fit Lisa's name. Decades later, Jobs told his biographer [[Walter Isaacson]]: "Obviously it was named for my daughter."<ref>{{cite book|last=Isaacson|first=Walter|title=Steve Jobs|year=2011|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-4853-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/stevejobs00isaa/page/93 93]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stevejobs00isaa/page/93}}</ref>
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