#Pentiums and Macs
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Bob,
Interestingly there are now a couple of shell programs for the Macs, at
least two shareware and 1 commercial. All three implement a unix style shell.
I've only played with the two shareware shells and neither are up to WSHell on
the Amiga, but at least the concept of a CLI on a Mac is alive, barely.
I'm using a Mac PowerPC 6100 which seems pretty potent and certainly as
fast as my 3000T/040 was. With "native" software it screams past an '040,
especially graphics. Now, if the Mac could only multi-task like the Amiga ….
Of course neither can windows 3.1.
I've used OS/2 2.1 and it would surely be interesting to see it ported
to the PPC. Hope they make a Mac PPC version.
A UNIX shell? That might make it more tolerable…
Bob Comer Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A.
Bob,
Welllll, almost one. It's really a very limited shell, at least the
downloadable one. Perhaps the commercial version is more robust. I would say
it was an example of a good first try which with some effort might become a
pretty good shell. However, there are so very few needs for shells on the Mac.
Anyway, for one who wants the benefits of a CLI, there are a few for the Mac.
Apparently there is a commercial product out, but not a demo version to try, so
I don't know what might be available that could be more robust.
Were one to be more of a CLI user on a Mac, I would think that it would
be nice, then, to see not only a good shell but even REXX. I've yet to use
Applescript, which is supposedly like REXX (I don't know how good that
comparison is), but REXX is less proprietary and more widely known. It also
exists on a lot of platforms, now, which Applescript does not.
Steve