Georg Wrede wrote: > ... > > What nobody told the user (until he had already bought a PC with MSDOS, > and he had tried to actually use the feature, unsuccessfully, and then > called the $10-a-minute hotline), is that the pipes were implemented so > that the first program writes the entire output into a temporary file on > the floppy, and once it has finished running, the next program then > opens the file as input. > > Now, with the 0.00036 GB floppies of the day, it's not hard to see why > nobody ever got any real pipe work done. > > Pipes were an integral part of Unix way before that time. And still, the > Microsoft sales "persons" made all idiots believe Microsoft freaking > *invented* the concept. (I've actually witnessed this in trade shows.)
I imagine that was because DOS couldn't run more than a single program. -- Daniel
