> Just as a programming course
would not today begin with goto, we suggest teaching either
posix_spawn() or CreateProcess(), and then introducing
fork as a special case with its historic context (§2).
Or CreateProcess(), which has a lot to do with microsoft.
It really doesn't. Microsoft employs a guy named Dave Cutler who is credited with leading the development of Windows NT in the late 80s/early 90s. They hired him from DEC, where he... is credited with co-leading a research project that later became VMS. If you go look at OpenVMS programming manuals, you will see process creation calls (e.g. SYS$CREPRC, LIB$SPAWN) that look and behave a lot like CreateProcess().
I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.
I don't think we should ever forget how MS behaved through the mid 2000s. But we don't live in that world anymore, they aren't (capable of being) that company anymore, and I think we're at a point where dismissing research because of a connection to MS is not protecting anyone from anything.
> Just as a programming course would not today begin with goto, we suggest teaching either posix_spawn() or CreateProcess(), and then introducing fork as a special case with its historic context (§2).
Or CreateProcess(), which has a lot to do with microsoft.
It really doesn't. Microsoft employs a guy named Dave Cutler who is credited with leading the development of Windows NT in the late 80s/early 90s. They hired him from DEC, where he... is credited with co-leading a research project that later became VMS. If you go look at OpenVMS programming manuals, you will see process creation calls (e.g. SYS$CREPRC, LIB$SPAWN) that look and behave a lot like CreateProcess().
I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/process... https://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/v73/5932/5932... http://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/v73/5841/5841p...
I don't think we should ever forget how MS behaved through the mid 2000s. But we don't live in that world anymore, they aren't (capable of being) that company anymore, and I think we're at a point where dismissing research because of a connection to MS is not protecting anyone from anything.
> I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.
Has the old theory that "Windows NT" aka "WNT" = "VMS + 1" ever been proved or disproved?
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Yeah, if you're using Windows you aren't going to be able to use it. Or are you suggesting that Microsoft should implement posix_spawn?
Can't you use posix_spawn() with WSL and your favorite POSIX-compatible libc implementation?
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It's just the equivalent, not EEE.