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
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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.
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Steve Dyer
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