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A small reminder: In the age of Unix multiuser systems were very common. Fork was the optimal solution to be able to serve as much concurrent users or programs
by t0suj4 3y ago
A small reminder: In the age of Unix multiuser systems were very common. Fork was the optimal solution to be able to serve as much concurrent users or programs as possible while keeping the implementation simple.
Today's RAM is cheap.
- moonchrome 3y agoSo much of design constraints in our base abstractions are not relevant today but we're still cobbling together solutions built on legacy technical decisions.
- archgoon 3y ago[dead]