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Re:A fork() in the road by dijit on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:46AM (#19623152)
VAX/VMS implement "vfork()" which is an implementation of the most common use-cases of fork.

VAX and VMS are not POSIX or UNIX-like.

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Re:A fork() in the road by msla on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:33AM (#19623350)
VAX is a hardware architecture. I'm not one to nitpick, but differentiating between VAX and VMS when VMS ran on the VAX is confusing.
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Re:A fork() in the road by pjmlp on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:25PM (#19626245)
On their POSIX compatibility layer.
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