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From: peter@baylor.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: More unwanted opinions on Amiga DOS
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:44:34 EST
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Regarding the memory overhead of pipes:

There is no reason you couldn't fake pipes in AMIGADOS by creating a dummy
device called "PIPE:<command>", not so?

The overhead for a pipe on UNIX is one file descriptor plus 4K (the size of a
pipe in the implementations I'm familiar with), assuming you don't buffer the
pipe on disk (in which case it's 1 fd plus 4K, since it usually spends its
whole life in the disk cache).

The reason the AMIGA doesn't have such things is obvious: the authors weren't
UNIX people and didn't know about them.
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