History
Process pipelines were invented by Douglas McIlroy, one of the designers of the first Unix shells, and greatly contributed to the popularity of that operating system. It can be considered the first non-trivial instance of software componentry.
The idea was eventually ported to other operating systems, such as DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, BeOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Mac OS X (the last one being a UNIX OS).
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