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jargon.net →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 .
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- inception
- 1960-00-00
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Peripheral Interchange Program（PIP）は、DEC製コンピュータにおけるデータファイル転送ユーティリティ。1960年代に PDP-6 上で最初に実装された。その後、PDP-10 や PDP-11 にも実装されている。
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