on 9/15/04 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I recently bought myself a 9600/200 128Mb RAM running OS9. This is my first > Mac it was cheapish and I couldn't resist. :-) > > My question is this: Is there any kind of CLI e.g. Terminal/Dos in OS9. > This might be a noob question but my computer experinece is mainly windows > and linux where cli is very obvious. I've looked around OS9 but can't see > where it'd be. > > Also, this is probably heresy but what [if anything] is OS9 built on e.g. > OS X is built on unix. The reason I ask is the filesystem looks *nixish. > > Cheers, > Jaqian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Welcome To Macintosh! ResEdit is a kind of terminal program for the Mac. If you start mucking in it, first make copies of ALL the files you want to look at the contents of. There's no direct link to terminal emulation unless your other partition has a flavor of Linux/ Unix on it. OS 9 is an evolution of the Macintosh OS which is an evolution of the Xerox Parc GUI from the early 80's. It has no directly underlying foundations in a DOS or Unix command-prompt environment. It was made to be a GUI as simplistic as it could be made. Whatever hidden files that are necessary are revealed by ResEdit. The OS works with the machine nearly always seamlessly, because the OS and machine were made at the same relative factory. There was and is more native hardware onboard like sound, in older Macs video, SCSI chips Ethernet long before any PC had it. There's more but I'll keep it as short as I can. I have a 7300 with an 8500 motherboard. It's got an accelerator which it recognizes without a driver. I inserted a better video card which was recognized and used instantly. NO internet D/L'ing and rooting through a device manager. The SCSI hard drive is from a PC server. Again, instant recognition when the jumpers were set to zero ID. The Apple formatter did its thing without a hitch. Although made some years apart, my USB HP all-in-one printer is installed and zipping along with a USB card from a newer Mac tower. The OS provided that luxury as did the HP installer CD. I can't think of a simpler machine at it's age than this Mac. It took MS to make XP before THAT happened. And that's four years after this Mac was made. Simple is king. My Mac does that for me. Have fun with yours! Jeff G -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
