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The command line is not a "foundational layer" in macOS, that was my point. It exists on the same layer as the GUI does.


The foundation of MacOS is a fully-compliant Unix:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

The GUI is built on top of the Unix foundation and does not stand alone or work without it.

The 'FoxTrot' comic made a big deal about this not long after Mac OS X was released:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25


The foundation of macOS contains elements of UNIX (or rather BSD) and the OS is UNIX certified, Iā€˜m fully aware of that. But these are two different things.

For one thing, UNIX != command line.

In the same vein, Windows NT is not based on DOS anymore, even if it has a command line which resembles (parts of) DOS.




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