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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 18 Dec 89 21:51:33 GMT
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In article <1989Dec18.174644.24333@ug.cs.dal.ca>, smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean
Smith) writes:
> GUI's.  Personally, I hate 'em.
> Which already makes me loathe the Mac, but not so *if I could ditch the GUI
> for a command line environment*.

One thing about Windows, or PM, or even X is that there's a command line
interface sitting down there somewhere underneath everything (at least
conceptually).  There isn't on a Mac.  When you're using menus & windows,
you *are* talking to the OS.  The reason command-line evironments like MPW
are add-ons is that they are sitting on top of the GUI, not the other
way around.

To each their own, I guess.

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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