From: "Geo." 

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> Neither had powerful command shells, either, where you could string
> together whole stacks of commands to get something done.
"ls" vs. "list"
> may not be much difference when that's all you're typing, but when it's
> something like:

Right, how foolish of me to think that any OS except unix could be used to
automate processes ;>
It's not like I can set an NT server to backup a half dozen machines or
auto-change wallpaper without powerful command shells and hours of
scripting..

>  Eterm -T MultiMail --trans off -F 10x20 -g 80x35 -f black -b white
>  --scrollbar off --menubar off -P /usr/share/wallpapers/Marble01.jpg -e mm
>  -transparency y -backfill n -editor "xterm -fn 12x24 -e pico -b
-t -r75"

I know an even more powerful scripting language, it's capable of doing
absolutely anything the computer is capable of doing and you can write much
longer scripts with it and talk about FAST. And best of all (you are really
going to like this part) all the commands are real short, usually just 3
letters. They used to call it assembler but not many people use it anymore.

Geo.

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