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====== The Day Ken Installed Pipes ====== | ====== The Day Ken Installed Pipes ====== | ||
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+ | It was Doug McIlroy who convinced Ken Thompson to add pipes to Unix: | ||
+ | "Over a period from 1970 til ’72, I’d from time to time, say "How about making something like this?", | ||
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Dick Haight was present the day that pipes were introduced into Unix: | Dick Haight was present the day that pipes were introduced into Unix: | ||
"I happened to have been visiting the research crew theday they implemented pipes. It was clear to everyone practically minutes after the system came up with pipes working that it was a wonderful thing. Nobody would ever go back and give that up if they could help it." (Jay and Ronda Hauben, //Netizens: An Anthology//, | "I happened to have been visiting the research crew theday they implemented pipes. It was clear to everyone practically minutes after the system came up with pipes working that it was a wonderful thing. Nobody would ever go back and give that up if they could help it." (Jay and Ronda Hauben, //Netizens: An Anthology//, | ||
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