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All personal computers these days come with a graphical user interface (GUI), although this hasn’t always been the case. Most computers prior to the release of the Apple Macintosh booted into a terminal, text-only environment. All you would have been greeted with was a flashing cursor.
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Platt, D. (2021). Getting Started. In: Tweak Your Mac Terminal. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6171-2_1
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