PIP
<tool> Peripheral Interchange Program.
A program 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 written, 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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-28)
Nearby terms:
Pin Grid Array « Pink-Shirt Book « pin-out « PIP
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