Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: system Message-ID: <7158@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 21 Jan 88 17:18:46 GMT References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <452@picuxa.UUCP> <3920@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <7152@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <7152@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >>...the fact that UNIX is multiuser... >Yes, exactly. Before someone picks on this, it's not EXACTLY correct -- it's the multitasking nature of UNIX that's involved with fork and exec. Of course, the multiuser environment relies on this..