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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:52:50 -0500
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On 3/11/2025 5:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:46:24 -0700, Stephen Fuld wrote:
> 
>> No software guy talks about "pipeline semantics" :-)
> 
> Remember what pipes are in Unix, and how they can be used to construct
> command pipelines.

Putting the destination on the right is also fairly common in general in 
Unix style command notation:
   dosomething args infile outfile

   prog1 infile | prog2 > outfile

....