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Article:		From Exile to X11: A Journey Through Time
Subject:		Command line is no closer than GUI
Date:		2003-03-17 12:55:47
From:		anonymous2

Quote: ---- Interestingly, many people think of Terminal as "an application that lets you type commands." In a way, this is true, but it's useful to think of Terminal as a window into the true operating system itself. ---- Actually this couldn't be more false. Neither the GUI or the command line is closer to the true operating system. I have been using Unix systems for >10years now, and it is only in the last 2-3 years that I came to realize that. A shell is no closer to the system/kernel than an X11/Cocoa/Carbon/... application is. A failure to understand that shows a lack of understanding of how unix systems are structured. Eric

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Command line is no closer than GUI---hear, hear!
2003-03-17 16:23:24 halliday [View]

Thanks! I see someone else was thinking this while I was composing my, very similar, response. :)