22 Jun
2007
22 Jun
'07
10:07 a.m.
I need to be more careful when quoting from my rusted out memory of
something from 20 years ago ;-) You know how it goes...
Curt
John Foust wrote:
At 11:00 AM 6/22/2007, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Well, I'm mis-stating that is was a full CLI
window, I meant to say more correctly it had the Debug/Monitor window - still a text based
way of communicating and commanding the Mac outside of point& click. Sorry about the
confusion.
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. It was weird, to be sure. It was one place that revealed
that under the hood, the Mac filesystem functions could use ':' as
the path separator.
- John