[TUHS] Interactive Systems (was Pcc for 386)
Deborah Scherrer
dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu
Sat Jul 13 09:18:52 AEST 2019
I believe you are right. That was a typical implementation method.
Deborah
On 7/12/19 3:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 2:44 PM Deborah Scherrer
> <dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu <mailto:dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu>>
> wrote:
>
> I didn't do this port, so don't know the details. But it was done in
> the late 70s (I think) and had broad distribution. When I collected
> various Software Tools versions, I was not able to find the VMS
> one. Sorry.
> Deborah
>
> On 7/12/19 1:45 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> > On 7/12/19, Deborah Scherrer <dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu
> <mailto:dscherrer at solar.stanford.edu>> wrote:
> >> There was also an extensive port of the Software Tools to VMS,
> done by
> >> Joe Sventek at LBNL. Included at the key tools, the shell, pipes,
> >> everything. Felt completely like Unix.
> > How did the LBNL Software Tools for VMS implement pipes? I'm
> curious
> > because DEC itself did a product in the mid-1980s called DEC Shell
> > that was a VMS port of the Bourne shell and associated utilities. I
> > wrote a VMS device driver that implemented pipes as a true VMS
> > pseudo-device, similar to VMS mailboxes but with true Unix pipe
> > semantics.
> >
> > -Paul W.
>
> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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