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Could you imagine Apple would have gone for BeOS or a custom developed kernel with no significant terminal-based userland when making OS X? It would probably st
by DCKing 12y ago
Could you imagine Apple would have gone for BeOS or a custom developed kernel with no significant terminal-based userland when making OS X? It would probably still be used by many casual users or those doing graphical work, but I doubt it would be used by hackers at all.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoI believe they considered Windows NT at one point. Can you imagine using NT's fake DOS terminal? Ugh.
- tvon 12y agoI suspect the GNU toolchain would have been ported over at some point.
- 0x0 12y agoDidn't BeOS ship with bash and everything?
- DCKing 12y agoWhoops. Yes it did. Haiku still does: http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bash-scripting.html http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bash-scripting.htm...