Originally Posted By: drakino

Another parallel would be early Windows (non NT) vs Mac OS (non OS X). Windows was just a GUI shell program bolted on top of the DOS OS. Mac OS was from the ground up a GUI OS. During boot with Windows, you got to watch DOS boot first in a text mode console. And if Windows failed to start, it dumped errors into the text console. Mac OS booted always in a GUI, and always presented GUI errors if something went wrong during boot.


I know what you mean, but you've picked up a very poor example. The startup phase of the Windows and classic Mac OS really weren't that different in practice.

Yes the Mac didn't show you a text console, but when it came to errors it no more GUI than Windows/DOS. An unhappy Mac or a cryptic error number really doesn't count as GUI wink
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