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 [Hyperionreactor.net] In the Beginning wasthe Command Line | HyperionReactor: In other words, the first thing that Apple's hackers had done when they'd got the MacOS up and running--probably even before they'd gotten it up and running--was to re-create the Unix interface, so that they would be able to get some useful work done. At the time, I simply couldn't get my mind around this, but: as far as Apple's hackers were concerned, the Mac's vaunted Graphical User Interface was an impediment, something to be circumvented before the little toaster even came out onto the market.

 [Laniels.org] Stephen Laniel’s Unspecified Bunker: In other words, the first thing that Apple’s hackers had done when they’d got the MacOS up and running—probably even before they’d gotten it up and running—was to re-create the Unix interface, so that they would be able to get some useful work done. At the time, I simply couldn’t get my mind around this, but: as far as Apple’s hackers were concerned, the Mac’s vaunted Graphical User Interface was an impediment, something to be circumvented before the little toaster even came out onto the market.

[Trog.qgl.org] In the Beginning was the Command Line: When everything went to hell and the CPU began spewing out randombits, the result, on a CLI machine, was lines and lines of perfectly formedbut random characters on the screen--known to cognoscenti as "going Cyrillic."But to the MacOS, the screen was not a teletype, but a place to put graphics;the image on the screen was a bitmap, a literal rendering of the contentsof a particular portion of the computer's memory. When the computer crashedand wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that lookedvaguely like static on a broken television set--a "snow crash."

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