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In article <9212142475@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
>MS-DOS is too stupid to multitask. It lacks the facilities. 

Yes.

>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.

No, it's just that you don't have the right software.  There are several 
multitaskers which sit on top of DOS and make it multitask.  Windows is one, 
Desqview is another.  I don't know if anyone has bothered to make pipes
work the way they do on Unix.  Windows has more or less given up on that 
method of file management, so you're not likely to see it there.  I heard 
last year that someone intended to do it for Desqview, but I don't know if 
they ever published the results.

The number of times where it really matters whether two programs are run 
concurrently at half speed or sequentially at full speed is so tiny, that I 
doubt if it's on anybody's "10 most important projects" list.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca