To create a new process, a process copies itself with the fork system call.fork creates a copy of the original process, and that copy is largely identical to the parent. The new process has a distinct ...

In about half these cases, furthermore, the current Unix hardware was purchased during the 2001-3 period when late nineties efforts to convert the software first to NT and then to 2000 failed and ...

IBM is firing a shot across Sun Microsystems' bow with its new p690 super-server in the battle for Unix-server supremacy. "What we're announcing is the world's most powerful Unix servers," Greg ...

Sun's top-end Starcat server tests its muscle against IBM's Regatta in a benchmark test of how the machines handle Java-based server programs. It promises to be a ding-dong battle.