[TUHS] interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac

[Adam Thornton]

I was hoping for a better easter egg.  I dunno about y'all but when I see
">>>" .... my mind goes a certain place.  Alas, no.

adam at m1-wired:~/git/phalanx/services/nublado$ dc
>>> boot dqa0

Parse error: bad character 't'
    <stdin>:1

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM Joseph Holsten <joseph at josephholsten.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 06:15, Dan Cross wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org>
> wrote:
> >> I should also also add, Mac has >>> as  Rob noted. FreeBSD doesn't
> >
> > Hmm, interesting. I wonder what version of macOS you both are running?
> > My old trashcan Mac (soon to be replaced!) is running the
> > next-to-most-recent version and doesn't have the `>>> ` prompt. My
> > laptop, running the latest (Ventura?) does.
> >
> > I don't think I blame Apple for this, but rather something upstream of
> them.
>
> Per https://opensource.apple.com/releases/, they switched from
> macOS Monterey 12 with GNU bc 1.06
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-21/bc
> to macOS 13 with GH bc 4.0.2
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-26/bc
>
> I suspect this is similar to the replacement of bash with zsh for GPL
> avoidance.
>
> Interesting timeline though, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/4.0.2
> was released in 2021-05-01, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/5.0.0
> in 2021-08-08.
>
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