Xah Lee's Unixism

[jmfbahciv at aol.com]

In article <ApudnfQdCY-dfavcRVn-pQ at speakeasy.net>,
   rpw3 at rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
><jmfbahciv at aol.com> wrote:
>+---------------
>| rpw3 at rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
>| >| Consider the "PIP" command.
>| >+---------------
>| >
>| >Indeed. And COPY & DEL & DIR, etc.
>| 
>| Well, not quite :-).  COPY and DELETE called PIP via a CCL
>| command.  DIRECT became its own program.  To do a directory
>| using PIP required a switch and wasn't a monitor level command.
>+---------------
>
>Yes, I knew that. What I was trying to convey is that the *names*
>of those DOS commands had also been copied from the DEC lineages.
>That is, COPY/DEL/DIR rather than cp/rm/ls.

IIRC, those verbs didn't show up until after 4S72 of TOPS-10 (it
wasn't TOPS-10 back then either).  I would also suspect that 
the PIP didn't originate at DEC either.  A lot of those guys
did work at MIT before they coalasced into a startup company.

My whole point is that attributing who started it is not
as interesting as how the "it" flowed through the biz.

/BAH

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