17 Mar
2023
17 Mar
'23
9:24 a.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
I noticed the section on deferred interrupts, which
mentions Cutler
and "fork" on RSX. It doesn't mention the similar mechanism, also
called fork, in RT-11.
And, pray tell, what do these "fork" mean?
I'm curious since Unix has fork as a verb, whereas Tenex has it as a
noun. Presumably they both got it from the Berkeley 930 timesharing
system, so maybe something got lost in translation on the way to the
East coast. It would be intresting to compare against the meaning in
RSX (11 not 15, I guess) and RT-11.