Re: FS: APPLE IIGS

[jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <5j6ovo$1pg$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>    GS/OS has no builtin shell, while Win95 (== DOS 7 + Win 4) does.
> However, both let you add in better shells (GNO/ME's gsh on the GS,
> 4dos on the PC) very easily, giving you the choice between GUI and
> command line. On the other hand, the Mac is a veritable totalitarian
> state saying "you will do it OUR way" until you reformat the drive and
> put MkLinux on it or something else to make it useful.
> 

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There's nothing stopping someone from making a command-line shell for
Macintosh, except for the fact that there's basically no market for such a
product.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)