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> you open a command line Except Classic Mac OS never had this. You'd sometimes need to do arcane rituals like "re-bless the system folder", but they were enti
by card_zero 2y ago
> you open a command line
Except Classic Mac OS never had this. You'd sometimes need to do arcane rituals like "re-bless the system folder", but they were entirely GUI-based arcane rituals that involved double-clicking icons, opening and closing windows, and dragging files in and out of folders.
- nine_k 2y agoThere was no other, simpler interface. And the whole system was much simpler (and less capable). The graphical hardware was way simpler and fully in-house, unlike the current GPUs that are third-party and evolve quickly.
- card_zero 2y agoExactly, there was no other, complicated interface. Except in 1991-1995 when System 6 was going to merge with AIX and be A/UX and Apple was going to merge with IBM and it was all briefly very weird.
- skydhash 2y ago> Except Classic Mac OS never had this. Text interfaces: streams of discrete objects (characters) with some having special purposes GUI: A matrix of pixels + a set of of rectangles with special properties attached. If you want to quickly write a program, text is the way to go. Most developers are scratching their own itch and already know the system. They may surface a few GUI settings (if it's GUI), but no one wants to build a complete GUI ecosystem on top of Linux (unless you go fo a restricted version like ChromeOS or Android). And with scripts, you can quickly write your own software by using existing ones. It can be your very special computing world.