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From: kent@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: History Question: Origin of fork()
Message-ID: <106@gnomee.pa.dec.com>
Date: 22 Feb 89 02:59:55 GMT
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I believe that the concepts of fork and join first appeared in

J. B. Dennis and E. C. Van Horn, "Programming Semantics for
Multiprogrammed Computations", CACM", V9n3, March 1966.
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