Peripheral Interchange Program

PIP /pip/ vt.,obs. [Peripheral Interchange Program] To copy; from the program PIP on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do). It is said that when the program was originated, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL ( Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord'; this played on the Nahuatl word atlatl' for a spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity that were no doubt quite intentional). See also BLT , dd , cat .