On Dec 13, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
They were originally invented in 1965, on Multics (1970) they were used to perform compilation in the background. When Unix came along, it *added* address space separation, introducing what is now known as processes.
Yes, and a lot of the subsequent interest in threads came due to the historically debilitating overhead of fork() on some important Unices, notably Solaris.
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