Talk:Peripheral Interchange Program

History

I've added some more about the history of PIP, particularly on the reason for the retention of the underscore separator. Kay Dekker (talk) 20:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The COPY command

I've deleted the material which described the COPY command on TOPS-10, because it was based on a fundamental flaw - the syntax of the COPY command was actually COPY destination=source, just as with PIP, not COPY source destination as described. I've just verified this by consulting the TOPS-10 Operating System Commands Manual for TOPS-10 7.04, as I ought to have done before I wrote what I did - much embarrassment! :(

I suspect that both the original author of the material and I misremembered our TOPS-10, influenced by familiarity with UNIX, whose file-copying command is indeed cp source destination. My apologies for writing without referring to sources! Kay Dekker (talk) 15:18, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]