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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by jonjacky on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:26PM (#26413698)
Yes, I do. I recall they had ads where they showed the amazing things you could do with one-line commands at the shell - they had examples of pipelines including grep and awk etc. I remember being amused that these familiar idioms that had been used in the Unix/Linux world for ages were being presented as amazing new capabilities.
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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by bluejekyll on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:39PM (#26413852)
For Mac users, this was a new capability. Before that, I was always using remote X sessions to get onto shared Unix systems.
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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by jonjacky on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:44PM (#26413905)
What I found amusing at the time was, after years of touting the Mac point-and-click interface as a great improvement over the old-fashioned hard-to-learn obscure command line, they switched to touting the unprecedented power and versatility of ... the command line!
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