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There was some kind of command prompt you could bring up with some really obscure combination of keypresses. I remember encountering it on System 7 and MacOS 8.

by tomc1985 5y ago

There was some kind of command prompt you could bring up with some really obscure combination of keypresses. I remember encountering it on System 7 and MacOS 8. I never did figure out what could be done with it

kalleboo 5y ago
You're thinking of the debugger - the default Microbug that was built-in was pretty much only useful for printing or writing memory (or typing G FINDER into it, causing the front app to crash and bringing you back to the Finder if the app was hung). Macsbug[0] which was an optional install was much more feature-rich, but it was still just a debugger and not actually a command line environment. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacsBug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacsBug
- tomc1985 5y ago
  Is that Microbug debugger the one that pops up in a upper-centered box with only a prompt character? What I remember definitely wasn't MacsBug.
  - kalleboo 5y ago
    Yeah that's the one!