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From: pete@sun1102.UUCP (Peter R. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why fork? (long, was Re: IBM PC prehistory)
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Date: 18 Jan 90 22:58:27 GMT
References: <610@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl> <952@dms.UUCP> <1239@cirrusl.UUCP> <1990Jan17.204433.18006@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Jan17.204433.18006@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Nope, sorry, wrong, 


The tone of your posting sucks.

Read the preceding articles, the original poster asked a simple question:
Why can't fork/exec be done together?

I simply replied that there was such a beast, and pointed out that it is 
not portable. 

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