The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)

Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by hashkb on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:09AM (#26791655)

Many of the standard unix tools are not written in sh. They're written in C. Am I missing something in your comment?

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by ticviking on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:12AM (#26793299)

> It’s simple command line interface expects users will program in other languages like C or assembly.

I think the point here is that DOS explicitly rejects the composition that pipes enable, in exchange for the ability to just hand "the whole system" over to a programmer.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:16PM (#26795660)

DOS had pipes since version 2.0 I believe.

But the main point, that DOS was basically a thin program loader that "got out of the way" is sound. Think of it like a UEFI shell environment, with 640k+ limits.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by unilynx on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:21PM (#26796740)

Dos pipes were just writes and reads to temporary files. No parallel processes

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:08PM (#26797469)

Ok, but didn't concern the end user, as far as I can remember.

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