[ale] [OT]RE: [ale] OSX

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Kilroy, Chris wrote:

> I"m not a mac person by any stretch of the imagination.  I personally 
> wonder about how good OSX is myself.
> 
> My biggest reservation with it is there is no readily apparent way to 
> really get into the file system, to a command line, that sort of thing.   
> This all from just playing with one in the new Apple Store at Lenox.
> 
> The displays on these machines are a thing of beauty though.  
<<snip>> 

Well, the command line is available from the terminal app, in full shell 
glory and power. The file system _is_ a little odd, as it is overlaid and 
trying to be compatible with the older Mac file system. Back compatibility 
has apparently caused some warpaged. I haven't tried installing OS X to an 
Apple Unix partition to see what changes. I'd love to hear if somebody has 
tried what the results were.


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