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The officially known story is that pipes originated with Douglas McIlroy and they were implemented under that name in Unix by Thomson.
by enqk 9y ago
The officially known story is that pipes originated with Douglas McIlroy and they were implemented under that name in Unix by Thomson.
- gumby 9y agoThat may be the official story but I can tell you as a onetime Multics programmer, Multics definitely had pipes and as we all know Ken T worked on Multics before going back to Bell Labs.