Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Scott Michel
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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pip == peripheral interchange program.

(It came from DEC's PDP-11 RSTS operating system, and had an incantation
 on the PDP-8 as well. Ahhh ... those were the days... when you had to boot
 a paper tape to boot a mag tape ... And I'm not that old, either.)


-scottm

In gnu.misc.discuss craigcu@amtelcom.com alleges:
: Roger Espel Llima wrote:
: > didn't cp/m have a command called PIP too, for copying?  i think i saw
: > that on old crappy amstrads.
: > 
: >         Roger
: Aaaahh, yes, CP/M. It still warms the cockles of my heart, and I too am
: not quite 40.

: C-squared.
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From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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