Good ${greeting_time}, Kees!

12 Oct 2014 11:36:02, you wrote to me:

 AV>> If mailers in that time could work with unnamed pipes, there
 AV>> would be no real need to invent these stupid "compatibility
 AV>> layers"...
 KE> The wisdom of hindsight. At the time the compatibility layes
 KE> were developed, the problem was in the hardware, where the
 KE> implementation of the serial ports in IBM-PC's and Digital-PC's
 KE> was different.

When the pipe() system call was invented (1973), there were no PCs with their
shitty DOS.

 KE> The only concept of pipes in MSdos was the use of "|". It was
 KE> implemented by use of intermediate files.

DOS is dead for over 10 years.


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