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From: dee@linus.UUCP (David E. Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: History Question: Origin of fork()
Message-ID: <43676@linus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 15:41:03 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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Who "invented" fork?  What system was the first to use fork?
(where fork did the Unix thing, i.e.  created a complete copy of the calling
 process as a new O.S. process)

Just curious, mostly...		dave emery
				emery@mitre.org