Pipes worked well on DOS from it's earliest versions

although strictly speaking, in early versions of DOS, pipes were just syntactic sugar:

foo | more
is implemented as
foo > tmpfile; more < tmpfile; del tmpfile
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which fails utterly in the face of a command that produces infinite output. I don't know whether things have improved since; I certainly hope so, but I haven't used MS on the desktop since 1987.

Dave.