Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!

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From: fred smith
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:48

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Chris (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote:
:    Apparantly MSDOS multitasks with the use of the pipe "|".  Is this
: true?

NO NO NO NO NO NO  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

:       How does the | really work?  For example: "type this.txt | more"
: has 'type' and 'more' being ran simultaneously (apparantly).  How is
: this so?

MS-DOS is too stupid to multitask. It lacks the facilities. Pipes
are   implemented as sequential processes with a temporary file
in the middle. on Unix, the same thing is literally done by running
two programs "at the same time" with the output of the first going
to the input of the second. BUT NOT ON DOS which is fundamentally
incapable of doing that.

: 
: --
: Chris Busch   CBUSCH@ub.d.umn.edu
: "C++ is the language of choice."
: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
:     be reguarded as a criminal offense." - E. W. Dijkista 
: "High-level languages should remove burden from the programmer, not
:  put burden on the programmer!"
: "Don't ask 'why would you do that?' instead ask 'why wouldn't you do that?'"
:

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Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
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