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Article #59Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
From: John Nagle
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:23
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:23
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toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> bowman@reed.edu (BoBoRamDos) writes:
>Can someone tell me how similar MPW is to the C-shell in Unix? I've been an
>avid USER of the Mac fan since the early days ('84), but to this day I have
>never PROGRAMMED on the Mac. I'm too hooked on vi, make, history (!), grep,
>awk, pipes, shell scripts, and other features of Unix on my SparcStation.
MPW is modelled on the UNIX Programmer's Workbench, circa 1978, and
offers roughly the same level of functionality. It was state of the art
when Apple picked it as a model, even though it's been bypassed by
more modern environments. It predates the C shell, although some
pattern-matching has been bolted on.
John Nagle
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW! Message-ID: <1992Dec16.062319.16732@netcom.com> Date: 16 Dec 92 06:23:19 GMT References: <01050133.ksdp2c@distant.uucp> <1992Dec11.195344.10218@reed.edu> <1992Dec11.155851.14862@walter.cray.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 15