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- From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- Message-ID: <9212142475@fcshome.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 13:48:13 GMT
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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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