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Peripheral Interchange Program

Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP) was a utility to transfer files on and between devices on Digital Equipment Corporation's computers. It was first implemented on the PDP-6 architecture by Harrison "Dit" Morse early in the 1960s. It was subsequently implemented for DEC's operating systems for PDP-10, PDP-11, and PDP-8 architectures. In the 1970s and…

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Developers
Digital Research / Gary Kildall, Heath Company
Operating system
BATCH-11/DOS-11, RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11, OS/8, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, CP/M, MP/M, DOS Plus, HDOS, VMS
Original author
Digital Equipment Corporation / Harrison "Dit" Morse
Release
1960s; 65 years ago (1960s)
Type
Command

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PIP in CP/M and MP/M

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Peripheral Interchange Program

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples6
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
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Developers · 1
Peripheral Interchange Program → Digital Research / Gary Kildall, Heath Company
Operating system · 1
Peripheral Interchange Program → BATCH-11/DOS-11, RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11, OS/8, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, CP/M, MP/M, DOS Plus, HDOS, VMS
Original author · 1
Peripheral Interchange Program → Digital Equipment Corporation / Harrison "Dit" Morse
Release · 1
Peripheral Interchange Program → 1960s; 65 years ago (1960s)
Type · 1
Peripheral Interchange Program → Command

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pip cp implemented program digital mp file files pdp-11 command equipment operating devices systems vms filenames microsoft windows also peripheral

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Peripheral Interchange ProgramDevelopersDigital Research / Gary Kildall, Heath Company1.00infobox
Peripheral Interchange ProgramOperating systemBATCH-11/DOS-11, RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11, OS/8, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, CP/M, MP/M, DOS Plus, HDOS, VMS1.00infobox
Peripheral Interchange ProgramOriginal authorDigital Equipment Corporation / Harrison "Dit" Morse1.00infobox
Peripheral Interchange ProgramRelease1960s; 65 years ago (1960s)1.00infobox
Peripheral Interchange ProgramTypeCommand1.00infobox
DKinstance oftypically 2 characters for device type0.80text

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