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| Sep 20, 2018 at 12:59 | comment | added | JdeBP | M. Douglas McIlroy, author of this famous memo who worked at Bell Labs and persuaded Ken Thompson to put pipes into Unix. | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 17:34 | comment | added | voices | @JdeBP Sorry, I have no idea who that is. Is he the original author of the utility or something? The flow of data & physical electrical current are often compared to hydraulic systems, but you probably know that. Anyway, I just chose this style to keep it super simple. I was actually going to do that to keep it familiar, but the garden variety tend to have more of a Y-shape and/or visually complicated attachments for attaching accessories, etc. It's essentially the same though. | |
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| Sep 18, 2018 at 16:21 | comment | added | JdeBP | If you had picked a garden hosepipe T piece, you would have been in line with Doug McIlroy's original metaphor. | |
| Sep 14, 2018 at 14:36 | history | edited | voices | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2018 at 4:57 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | +1 for picture which as we know is worth a thousand words | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 16:26 | history | answered | voices | CC BY-SA 4.0 |