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Originally Posted by talaivan
For heaven's sake, the Mac OS is BSD Unix with a shell running on top of it -- you have access to everything through the terminal. Yes, it's complicated, but so is Windows. The notion that a Mac is a car with its hood welded shut is just silly.
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It is now. Remember Mac OS9 and earlier where it didn't
have a command line?
It's not impossible to customize a Mac, in hardware or software. But Apple has done their best to remove the
necessity for doing so, by making things "just work" in what they hope is an intuitive manner for users.
But if you want to hack the hardware, it will be relatively more expensive to get the parts, and if you want to hack the interface you may wind up in the murky depths of X-Windows.
Apple had good reasons for shifting to a *nix derived OS, and even better ones in terms of support in trying to make it unnecessary for people to drop to the OS level.
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Dennis