9 Sep
2017
9 Sep
'17
1:19 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 8 Sep 2017 18:28 -0400, from usotsuki(a)buric.co
(Steve Nickolas):
For varying degrees of "pipes"; it implemented them with a temp file. But
yes, and that's exactly what I was referring to - it took those features
from Xenix. The API is pretty much as Unixlike as you could get on top of
the INT21 interface and on a single-tasking system, I think.
Heck, even MS-DOS 2 as we knew it would not have
been what it was,
were it not for Unix.
Wasn't it MS-DOS 2 that introduced such advanced features as
directories, pipes and general console I/O redirection? Of course most software that ran on top of DOS broke
much of the
redirection niceness by addressing the console directly via video
memory access...
Of course. But those kinds of programs often weren't the kind you'd want
to redirect anyway.
-uso.