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From: Peter Smulders <peter@nvsf1.phys.rug.nl>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 19 May 1997 11:33:54 GMT
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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