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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Interactive Systems (was Pcc for 386)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:24:18 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1907131020260.53965@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Okp+OLW_U-TUj2Oqf=dZf6YB=3uEyRbiRieOj75+Lwog@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Clem Cole wrote:

[ VMS "pipes" ]

> 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.    

That's my recollection too.

Trivia: I was speaking to Max at a DECUS conference, and he admitted that 
they had a Unix licence and were studying the code very carefully; not 
soon after, VMS became POSIX-compliant :-)

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-13  0:24 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
2019-07-12 23:18                 ` Deborah Scherrer
2019-07-13  0:24                 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-07-13  0:36     ` Dave Horsfall

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