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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: OT: Windows
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:17:15 -0300
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 08:31:05 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>> For instance, is there any Windows software that
>> handles a TCP connection in an accept-fork-exec fashion?
>
> Almost certainly not. Because process creation is an expensive operation 
> on Windows.
>
> Windows NT was masterminded by Dave Cutler, who was previously responsible 
> for the VMS OS at his previous employer, DEC. He was a Unix-hater, part of 
> a bunch of them at DEC. They would instinctively turn away from Unix ways 
> of doing things, like forking multiple processes. So the systems they 
> created did not encourage such techniques.

Is that Dave with a YouTube channel?