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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Re: History Question: Origin of fork()
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Date: 27 Feb 89 00:33:59 GMT
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kent@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent) <106@gnomee.pa.dec.com> :
-I believe that the concepts of fork and join first appeared in
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-J. B. Dennis and E. C. Van Horn, "Programming Semantics for
-Multiprogrammed Computations", CACM", V9n3, March 1966.


Peterson and Silberschatz trace fork/join to this paper, but also to
M. Conway, "A Multiprocessor System Design", Proc. AFIPS Fall Joint
Computer Conference, 1963.