APPLEVISION Monitor,, No shell = No power

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Tue May 7 10:48:26 2002

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:17:21AM -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > The Macintosh doesn't even offer a command line interface, right?
>
> No. OS X does, but OS X is ... Unix.

For older OSs you can get MPW (the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop)
which contains a shell, various utilities, and compilers. There are
extra utilities and compilers (not written by Apple) but nothing like
the amount of non-MPW Mac software. MPW used to cost money until
Apple made it free.

-- Derek
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 10:48:26 BST