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Anecdote: Notes on the History of Fork and Join (2016)

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The fork call allows a process (or running program) to create new processes. On multiprocessor systems, these processes can run concurrently in parallel. Since its birth 50 years ago, the fork has remained a central element of modern computing, both with regard to software development principles and, by extension, to hardware design, which increasingly accommodates parallelism in process execution. This article looks back at the birth of the fork system call to share, as remembered by its pioneers.

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Authors & Contributors
Cortada, James W.
Fidler, Bradley Reuben
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Guy C. Fedorkow
Hashizumi, Hiromichi
Tinn, Honghong
Concepts
History of Computing
Software
Computer security; cyber security
Computer networks
ARPANet
Computers and computing
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Taiwan
India
Institutions
Computer History Museum
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
International Network Working Group
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