Re: [ILUG-BOM] Copy on write [was: Microsoft's innovation]

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

Philip S Tellis wrote:

> non duplication of the code base is standard in all multiprocessing
> systems and has always been AFAIK.  Only the very early OSes did not allow
> it (I think) because back then it was not uncommon to write programs that
> modified their own code (refer the story of mel).

Win32 makes duplicate copies, AFAIK. I remember reading this as one of
the major differences between Win16 and Win32 (16-bit did not
duplicate).

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