From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 01:05:44 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] [TUHS} communication files: interprocess IO before pipes
In-Reply-To: <201703060350.v263oM7u024080@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
References: <201703060350.v263oM7u024080@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
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Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> It's not really Unix history, but Dartmouth's "communication files"
> have so often been cited as pipes before Unix, that you may like
> to know what this fascinating facility actually was. See
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/DTSS/commfiles.pdf

Thanks! That was a very interesting read.

As a general remark, the historical discussions here of late have been
very interesting (if voluminous :-).  I think it's increasingly important
to preserve as much of this history as possible.  I've enjoyed reading
about some of the systems I never worked on, such as ITS.

Arnold