"Sporting a 350MHz 604e processor, room for up to 1.5Gb of memory and six PCI slots, the 9600 was a big beige beast on par with any PC system at the time. "

Ha! "on par"?! What competition did it have? Pentium MMX-based screamers? Laughable. The 9600 ran rings around any PC you could buy or build.

And, BTW, the Lisa was no Alto rip-off. It could be a Star rip-off hadn't Apple perfected so many UI traits that later went into the Mac: files as icons, a menu bar with pull-down menus, floating dialog boxes...

And, BTW, the Lisa was never intended to be a home computer. It was also far less expensive than a comparable Xerox Star.

And they call themselves "authority"... pfff.