23 Jun
2007
23 Jun
'07
7:13 p.m.
On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:14, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 23 June 2007 02:11, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Also, don't forget that every PCI-based Power Macintosh could be forced
into OpenFirmware. People have designed elegant applications to run in
this very minimal but powerful environment.
What is that? First I've read of it...
Never mind, google answered that one...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I do remember a true command-line environment for C
program
development on the Mac. I believe Apple's came with one. There were
probably others, maybe Manx. "Programmer's Workbench" comes to mind,
but I'm not sure if that's it.
The full name was "Macintosh Programmer's Workshop" It let you use *nix
style development tools such as yacc, patch and grep, and gave you a
CLI to the compilers and linkers. Also, the colon *was* the internal
path seperator for the Mac, just like / in *nix and \ in MS-DOS.