APPLEVISION Monitor,, No shell = No power

From: Dave Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Tue May 7 10:45:58 2002

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 01:30 AM, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> Nearly everything you ca do with a mouse can be expedited with
keystrokes on
> the PC. That's not the case with a Mac, is it?

        Actually, yes there are keyboard shortcuts for most mouse-based
actions in MacOS, just like Windows...

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 02:08 AM, Richard Erlacher wrote:

>
> The Macintosh doesn't even offer a command line interface, right?

        Macs that run OS X do have a CLI now (command line interface)

> It does effect all the functions of a Unix command-line driven system,
> though,
> doesn't it?

        I think the answer to this is 'yes'.

> ...

> ...
> The question that remains unanswered is, "Are all those millions that use
> Windows really so much dumber than the Mac, Linux, Unix communities that
> they're being duped, or what?"...

        No, most of them are probably just stubborn, like some (most?) of us
here. Me included, sometimes...

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