Editing Fork (system call) (section)

== History ==
One of the earliest references to a fork concept appeared in ''A Multiprocessor System Design'' by [[Melvin Conway]], published in 1962.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Notes on the History of Fork and Join|last=Nyman|first=Linus|date=25 August 2016|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|volume=38|issue=3|pages=84–87|doi=10.1109/MAHC.2016.34}}</ref> Conway's paper motivated the implementation by [[L. Peter Deutsch]] of fork in the [[Project Genie|GENIE time-sharing system]], where the concept was borrowed by [[Ken Thompson]] for its earliest appearance<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-PDP7-Snapshot-Development/s3.s#L43-L70|title=s3.s from Research UNIX|date=1970|website=GitHub}}</ref> in [[Research Unix]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=SYS FORK (II)|encyclopedia=UNIX Programmer's Manual|publisher=[[Bell Labs|Bell Laboratories]]|url=https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/pdfs/man21.pdf|date=3 November 1971|author=[[Ken Thompson]] and [[Dennis Ritchie]]}}</ref><ref name="Ritchie">{{cite journal|last1=Ritchie|first1=Dennis M.|last2=Thompson|first2=Ken|date=July 1978|title=The UNIX Time-Sharing System|url=https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.pdf|journal=Bell System Tech. J.|publisher=AT&T|volume=57|issue=6|pages=1905–1929|doi=10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02136.x|access-date=22 April 2014|authorlink1=Dennis Ritchie}}</ref> Fork later became a standard interface in [[POSIX]].<ref name="posix">{{man|sh|fork}}</ref>