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		DCKing on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities Could you imagine Apple would have gone for BeOS or a custom developed kernel with no significant terminal-based userland when making OS X? It would probably still be used by many casual users or those doing graphical work, but I doubt it would be used by hackers at all.

TazeTSchnitzel on May 15, 2014 | [–]

I believe they considered Windows NT at one point. Can you imagine using NT's fake DOS terminal? Ugh.

tvon on May 15, 2014 | | [–]

I suspect the GNU toolchain would have been ported over at some point.

0x0 on May 15, 2014 | [–]

Didn't BeOS ship with bash and everything?

DCKing on May 16, 2014 | [–]

Whoops. Yes it did. Haiku still does: http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bash-scripting.htm...

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