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  • From: zman <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] command lines
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:05:29 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> I think (well, actually I know) that for a number of years the Macintosh OS
> lacked a command line. So it did go away on at least one platform for a
> while. ;-)

It's back to stay...

> As far as the current state of affairs for mainstream OSs, Unix (and Linux)
> are now the only OS's that can run entirely without a GUI. All the other
> OSs (Windows, Mac, etc) now use the GUI and tie so much into the GUI that it
> is impossible to run without it for anything but the most basic functions.

Actually OSX will run without the GUI, which essentially what Darwin is.
It works well for servers...

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