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		zaphirplane on March 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How are Unix pipes implemented? Linux got pipes 9 years ago seems not right. What do you mean happened on 2011

amenonsen on March 28, 2020 [–]

The slides are from 2011, not the code. Linux had pipes even in the v0.01 release from 1991, as the original article here mentions.

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