On Saturday 23 June 2007 02:11, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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.
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...
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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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