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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Date: Fri,  3 May 2002 12:09:30 +0200
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Mike Haertel wrote:
> My very first reaction to bidirectional pipes, when I first heard of
> them in some journal article about v8 Unix many years ago, was: wow,
> that is such an obvious win, why wasn't it done years ago?

That fell straight out of the stream implementation of pipes;
a cross connected stream.