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From: lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh OS (was: 68000 and Workstations.)
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Date: 8 Jun 90 11:52:50 GMT
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In article <26637.266e6ed4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

> There's some nice little DA and/or INIT products out there that let you
> do CLI on the Mac for free (or cheap shareware), but almost nobody uses them

Oh my Gawd ...  you wouldn't be talking about CLIM, would you??  I'll TELL
you why nobody uses it:

	(a) It is very buggy
	(b) It takes away your mouse pointer so you can't use MultiFlounder
	(c) It has trouble parsing filenames with spaces in them (i.e. ALL
		filenames :-) )
	(d) It implements a SUBSET of the (yeccchh!) MS-DOS interpreter, but
		is not nearly as powerful :-)
	(e) It's written in ZBASIC

Actually, this summer, there will be a very good CLI for the Mac out.  It's
called MacMINIX :-) :-) :-)

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