Sorry bad cut/paste -- that was from CACM if its was not obvious
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:52 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:37 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
John Cowan wrote:
Early versions of PDP-7 [Unix] used the same
process model as Tenex
I understand both Tenex and Unix got the concept of "fork" from Project
Genie.
Should be required reading of all intro to OS students:
Programming Semantics for Multiprogrammed Computations
Jack B. Dennis and Earl C. Van Horn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Volume 9 / Number 3 / March, 1966
[If your Internet search fails you and/or you find it behind an ACM
paywall or the like, drop me a line, I'll forward a PDF of a scan].
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