waldo kitty wrote:
FWIW: DOS does have and has had pipes... otherwise things like DIR |
MORE
would not work... maybe you mean named pipes? ;)
Yes, I do. And I'm obviously aware that there are plenty of addons
that graft
named pipes (and mailslots etc.) onto DOS.
i never used any of that... didn't need to AFAIK... just regular pipes
worked fine for the times i needed them but yes, they a much different
animals than named pipes...
I used mailslots in a DOS (VB for DOS?) program, they're the API that
underlies MS-style networking's NET SEND command.
However I always think of named
pipes, threads etc. as being primarily OS/2 v1 innovations, although
some might
have been introduced by the obscure Microsoft OS usually referred to as
"European MS-DOS v4.0".
for some reason i was thinking that unix and xenix had named pipes back
then... either way, i'm out and apologize for the diversion ;)
If you were using the very early MS networking for unix (mentioned in
the Samba entry on Wp IIRC, but I think I've also got other references)
then they probably had both.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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