nospam
In article <jp9l991tlgb132bccgvghobs1ebje5dipt@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

all macs that run os x have a command line and prior to that, it could be added if desired.

Eric Stevens
Way before OSX.

nospam
a/ux came out in 1987 and mpw was around the same time. just how much before do you want to go?

Eric Stevens
Back to whenever I was.

nospam
and as i said, a command line was not needed.

you only think you needed it because you don't know any different.

Eric Stevens
You haven't the faintest idea of what my needs were back in those days.

nospam
whatever you supposedly wanted to do could have been done without a command line.

Eric Stevens
Almost nothing useful was available in package form, not even for the IBM PC. We had to write much of our own stuff.

nospam
you could have written your own stuff on a mac too.

there is no need for a command line to write apps and in fact, the gui development environments make writing apps worlds easier.