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In the beginning was the command line

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bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 06:51:55 Interesting (and amusing) essay if anyone's got the time or inclination... http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/CommandLine Written by the author of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash. Cheers! CC Air Marshall, 605 sQUADRAn "What Microsoft has got in there is a grotesque, badly-documented pile of poo it doesn't fully understand itself." - The Register, 23/8/02
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 07:28:10 Very interesting! I just had a bit of a look through it. I'll read it later though, after i've done this little thing they call "sleep". -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 07:28:38 I'm reading it now, very good so far...though it seems it may be a bit long!! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Lord of the Mac II Series Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 http://www.cinemafia.net
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 07:41:30 It's a little out-dated (1999), so all the changes OSX has brought to CLI with Apple are missing, but it's still very relevant and well-written. I especially love the comparison of Steve Jobs & Apple to the secretive, controlling leaders of hippie communes of the 1970's. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Lord of the Mac II Series Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 http://www.cinemafia.net Edited by - cinemafia on 23 May 2003 07:47:01
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 08:19:04 Isnt it amusing how the mac that had a nice GUI interface way before the PC is now bragging out a CLI interface that reminds me of DOS mode on the PC.
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 10:05:33 Reading it now... -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 10:34:08 quote: Reading it now... That's one whole lotta .txt! I copied it into AppleWorks temporarily to make the formatting easier to read and at 10 pt. it's over 50 pages of type with margins reduced to 1/2" all around! jt . Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF p.s. WOW! Changing the font to Times gets it down to 40 pages . . . Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 23 May 2003 10:51:58
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 15:06:43 quote: Isnt it amusing how the mac that had a nice GUI interface way before the PC is now bragging out a CLI interface that reminds me of DOS mode on the PC. Exactly what I've always thought! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 20:38:57 heh... I like the command line in OSX... but yeah... some people are stupid... they think that they need a command line to "take control of the OS" but they never use it anyway and there's always GUI programs that can do it better... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 21:01:41 I just read it. Fairly interesting, too! However, i do think he went waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic with the whole Disney thing. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 21:51:25 uh oh... people are actually reading it now! I'll have to read it... I PDF-printed it and will be reading it inmy spare time (tomorrow) I like the car analogy of the OSs though.... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 22:22:43 Same here....especially with the station wagons....lol. Btw, what's wrong with more people reading it? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
Christophillis Forums Squadron Commander USA 688 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 22:26:23 He means that he will have to read it so that he can rack up more posts talking about it. 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Christophillis- Lt. Colonel Newton Squadron Commander Total 68k Macs Liberated: 6.02x10^23 or just 4
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 23 May 2003 : 22:29:55 Ah, ok. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
mac-man6 Junior Member Canada 217 Posts	Posted - 30 May 2003 : 15:40:02 Like a week later, I've finally completley read it. It was double plus big!. Very interesting though, I really want to mess around with Unix now but I don't know the first thing. Well too bad that BeOS went out of business... That's what I dislike about PC's, why can't they be more like MacOS?!. Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6) ------------------ PowerCD, Mac HD 20, SE, Classic II, IIx, IIvi, PB 170, LC 475, LC 575, Quadra 650, Performa 5200, iMac 333 How you like d'em apples?!
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 30 May 2003 : 15:42:53 Ya sure got that right about how big it is! "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 30 May 2003 : 20:42:29 hey... I COULD rack up posts with OR without actually reading it... yeah it IS very long I have too much spare time though yeah... BeOS went away and all the people of the world are still buying station wagons and ORVs.... (ORV V. 4.0 is really nice though! (NT4)) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"

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