Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:42:01 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 11/23/24 4:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Pipes originated on the earliest Unix machine, which
was a PDP-11 with only a 64kiB address space. They work great for
pumping around gigabytes of data, but you don’t need gigabyte-sized
memory buffers to do that.

 
It all has to be SOMEWHERE ... if not in RAM then on a mass storage
device.

It might be generated in one process and consumed in another. It might be
coming from the network, or going to the network -- the process at the
other end of the pipe being isolated from the network, perhaps for
security reasons.

In short, it might work any number of ways, without involving (local)
mass-storage devices.