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>Did Apple invent the concept of "handles"? 

Nope. they've been around for a long time.

>Do other small computers (IBM PC, Atari, Amiga,
>etc.) use handles?

They can. The Mac was the first major machine that required.

>Do people ever use handles in a Unix environment?
>Most Unix programmers I talk to have never heard
>of a "handle"...

How about:

main(argc,argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;

This is a pointer to an array of pointers to arrays of char. To do a
setenv, you basically re-arrange the array or pointers to the new
strings, but the handle (the char**) doesn't change.

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