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.
No. There is no "cli shell" per se in the classic Mac OS. The Mac OS and Finder were designed from the ground up to be GUI driven.
Windows, OTOH, is a essentially GUI written for cli-based DOS that has blossomed into a disk full of overlapping shared libraries.
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.
The classic Mac OS was built from scratch to be exactly what you see. It is not "based" on anything but itself. It's file system, HFS/HFS+, was designed for the Mac OS. Nothing *nix about it.
Mac OS X, on the other hand, is a different beast altogether. Mac OS X is a true Unix variant, based upon Darwin. Darwin is an open-source project, based on CMU's Mach 3.0 and FreeBSD 3.2. The gui and toolbox come from Rhapsody (one of Apple's failed Mac OS rewrites), which in turn came from NextStep.
HTH, - Dan.
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