Please stop responding to Rue

[Neil Hodgson]

Timothy Rue:

> MS DOS began with a Command Line Interface, then GUI but never did it
> evolve it's Command Line Interface to have what is considered standard
> functionality like command line history

   Command line history became available with the DOSKEY command in MSDOS
5.0 released 1991.

> The Mac began it's user interfaces with the GUI, never really having a
> Command Line Interface - Though Now it might have one in OSX.

   There was the MPW Shell available to programmers. Even back in 1984 there
were primitive command line shells for the Mac although the OS did not
support many of the concepts, such as redirectable streams, that make
command lines useful.

> Its third
> user interface is limited or constrained to applescript.

   It can be used from C or Python or UserLand Frontier or any other OSA
(Open Scripting Architecture) supporting language.

   Neil