Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Experience with Elan DWB package for PCs Message-ID: <1256@spdcc.COM> Date: 5 Jun 88 22:20:31 GMT References: <1248@spdcc.COM> <107@dcs.UUCP> Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 18 In article <107@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes: > Well, DOS implements pipes as intermediate files on disk, and since it > is not multi-tasking, ALL the output of one program is written to disk > before the next program in the pipe starts. > > The only whay ELAN could have changed that would be to provide a replacement > for DOS, i.e. a different operating system. Thanks, I know about DOS's limitations. It is feasible for a vendor to build a multi-tasking driver program for the DWB suite and implement the pipe chains within that. Not quite a "different operating system", although not trivial (but not impossible either.) My question was whether they (or anyone else) has done this. -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer