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The Unix Time Sharing System (1974) [pdf]

cs.berkeley.edu

18 points by id_ris 10 years ago · 5 comments

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wtbob 10 years ago

I think I was most surprised to see that fork used to take a label. How did that work?

  • Someone 10 years ago

    From the article: "The new processes differ only in that one is considered the parent process: in the parent, control returns directly from the fork, while in the child, control is passed to location label"

  • pacaro 10 years ago

    Just guessing, but the label probably became an address on compilation, so one branch of the fork would return in the usual way, the other would jump to the label/address

ape4 10 years ago

Looks like it could be good.

tomconte 10 years ago

Annotated by whom?

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