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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!rug.nl!not-for-mail From: Peter Smulders <peter@nvsf1.phys.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 19 May 1997 11:33:54 GMT Organization: NVSF Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Lines: 12 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lpdr2$8ca@info.service.rug.nl> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <5lanj7$6r4@netaxs.com> <5ldu0d$n40@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <337C74CC.33E7@amtelcom.com> <5ljb7s$spn@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: P.J.M.Smulders@phys.rug.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: nvsf1.phys.rug.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970114] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45152 comp.os.linux.misc:175914 comp.os.linux.x:61903 alt.os.linux:21344 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3318 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41154 gnu.misc.discuss:31364 comp.unix.solaris:106840 Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > 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.) Or toggle it in with the switches, when the paper tape reader gave up! Indeed, PIP was also available on the PDP-7 and PDP-9 (Probably on the PDP-1 already). -- Peter