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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: forks
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Date: 14 Nov 90 21:54:17 GMT
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From article <6874@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva):
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> written so that it runs tasks in a protected mode when available so that
> forks would be cheap (otherwise you'd want to defer the forking task until
> the child exits or execs... with some reasonably long timeout: forks on
> a 68000 without MMU are ugly... look at how MINIX does it).

I have seen discussion on forking and how hard it is on the Amiga, but
since I don't dwell on O/S theory (I just use the things) I do not
follow the nitty gritty of why it is hard.

Tutorial anyone?

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