From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Interactive Systems (was Pcc for 386)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:45:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Okp+OLW_U-TUj2Oqf=dZf6YB=3uEyRbiRieOj75+Lwog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f4400b9-a243-d86a-11a6-473f0e93adea@solar.stanford.edu>
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If I recall this was one of the implementations that wrote to a file and
then forked the next process after it got to eof.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:44 PM Deborah Scherrer <
dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I didn't do this port, so don't know the details. But it was done in
> the late 70s (I think) and had broad distribution. When I collected
> various Software Tools versions, I was not able to find the VMS one. Sorry.
> Deborah
>
> On 7/12/19 1:45 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> > On 7/12/19, Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >> There was also an extensive port of the Software Tools to VMS, done by
> >> Joe Sventek at LBNL. Included at the key tools, the shell, pipes,
> >> everything. Felt completely like Unix.
> > How did the LBNL Software Tools for VMS implement pipes? I'm curious
> > because DEC itself did a product in the mid-1980s called DEC Shell
> > that was a VMS port of the Bourne shell and associated utilities. I
> > wrote a VMS device driver that implemented pipes as a true VMS
> > pseudo-device, similar to VMS mailboxes but with true Unix pipe
> > semantics.
> >
> > -Paul W.
>
> --
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-12 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-11 22:02 ron
2019-07-11 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-07-12 2:52 ` Warner Losh
2019-07-12 3:55 ` Nigel Williams
2019-07-12 17:00 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-12 20:12 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-07-12 20:45 ` Paul Winalski
2019-07-12 21:43 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-07-12 22:45 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2019-07-12 23:18 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-07-13 0:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-07-13 0:36 ` Dave Horsfall
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