Editing Peripheral Interchange Program (section)

{{short description|File transfer utility}}
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| name                   = Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP)
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| author                 = [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] / Harrison "Dit" Morse
| developer              = [[Digital Research]] / [[Gary Kildall]], [[Heath Company]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1960s}}
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| operating system       = [[DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11|BATCH-11/DOS-11]], [[RT-11]], [[RSTS/E]], [[RSX-11]], [[OS/8]], [[TOPS-10]], [[TOPS-20]], [[CP/M]], [[MP/M]], [[DOS Plus]], [[HDOS]], [[OpenVMS|VMS]]
| genre                  = [[Command (computing)|Command]]
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'''Peripheral Interchange Program''' ('''PIP''') was a utility to transfer files on and between devices on [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s computers. It was first implemented on the [[PDP-6]] architecture by Harrison "Dit" Morse early in the 1960s.  It was subsequently implemented for DEC's operating systems for [[PDP-10]], [[PDP-11]], and [[PDP-8]]<ref>[https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/OS8_System_Reference_Manual.pdf OS/8], ''OS/8 System Reference Manual''</ref> architectures.
In the 1970s and 1980s [[Digital Research]] implemented PIP on [[CP/M]]<ref>[http://www.tramm.li/i8080/cpm22-m.pdf CP/M], ''CP/M Operating System Manual''</ref>  and [[MP/M]].<ref>[http://www.cpm.z80.de/manuals/mpm2ug.pdf MP/M], ''MP/M Operating System User's Guide''</ref>