22 Jun
2007
22 Jun
'07
9:13 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:14:51AM -0400, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Well, the Original Mac (and subsequents) did have a
CLI, you just needed
to know the sequence of buttons to push to get a CLI window to pop up...
To my knowledge, there was never any built-in CLI for Mac OS prior to
Mac OS X.
I suspect you're talking about either MacsBug, Apple's system debugger
for Classic Mac OS, or MicroBug, an extremely minimal debugger present
in the ROMs of all Classic Macs since the Mac Plus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacsBug
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1136.html
Cheers,
Brian.