Re: Rewriting computing history...

["Stephen Shaw" <bottrawler@junkbuster.zzn.com>]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:36:09 +0000, Greg Buchner wrote:

> In article <atqk6v$1ele$1@merope.saaf.se>,
>  pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> 
>> But apart from OS X, where do you find a command line in earlier
>> versions of Mac OS?  Yep, I've heard there are a few add-on third party
>> products, but that's all....
> 
> Actually you can get a command line in the older Mac development tools.
> Never saw them so I don't know how it works and don't remember the exact
> name, but it's been around for a while.
> 
> OS X is sort of like GS/OS with GNO.  If you had GNO installed, you could
> pretty much ignore it and stick with the GUI, but if you want the command
> line, it's there.
> 
> Greg B.


Could you 'hack' a machine from that command line? What I mean by that is
something similar to what you can do at the BASIC prompt on any Apple II
range computer i.e. catalog, run etc.? 
	I was always under the impression that Mac's were boring because they
were GUI only.