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From: sgf@brunix (Sam Fulcomer)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive speeds
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Date: 29 Aug 89 13:15:26 GMT
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In article <1202@mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
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>We don't swap to start processes anymore.
>Even if we did, the shell would already be there, and not cause a swap.
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I'm curious; when you do a fork where does the process address space get 
copied, or do you do copy-on-write?