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From: eps@noe.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: History Question: Origin of fork()
Summary: BSD "borrowed" from its contemporaries
Keywords: sti TOPS-20
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Date: 22 Jan 89 18:53:27 GMT
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In article <25259@sgi.SGI.COM> vjs@rhyolite.SGI.COM (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>My trivia questions:  was the 940 syspop "sti" a predecessor of the 4.x BSD 
>	ioctl TIOSTI as fork(2) was?  Or just a case of parallel evolution?

Given the time frame, my "best guess" is that BSD people got the
idea from TOPS-20, much as job control (and a bunch of other
things) betray a heavy ITS influence.  Sockets look a lot like
some prior British networking stuff, etc.

					-=EPS=-