Thought you guys would like this. Dennis Ritchie posted on his website the original note from Doug McIlroy that gave birth to UNIX pipes, one of the most brilliant things about that brilliant OS. It's short & very interesting (at least to nerds who love both tech & history, like me).
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/mdmpipe.html Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My latest book: Mac OS X for Power Users @ http://www.granneman.com/books “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” ---Voltaire -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
