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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Message-ID: <20094@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 23:41:50 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <452@picuxa.UUCP> <3920@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <2788@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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Keywords: c program

In article <2788@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> pmd@cbdkc1.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes:

| Close.  It has to do with UNIX being multiprocessing.  On UNIX, fork()

Minor nit here.  'multiprocessing' is usually the term reserved for
hardware with multiple physical processors.  I think you meant
'multitasking' or 'multiprogramming', which are interchangably used to
refer to systems that run multiple processes (independant of the number
of processors).

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@amdcad.amd.com)