Fall of Roman Empire

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Ben Finney  <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>> >  \      "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was |
>> >   `\        that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful |
>> > _o__)               termination of their C programs."  -- Robert Firth |
>> [ ... ] in many cases successful
>> termination of their C programs would have been unlikely.
>Yet historically proven: the 'imperium' process they were running
>terminated many centuries ago.
>
>Or did it fork and exec a different process?

Pretty much. Except they would argue that the child process
(Byzantium) never exec'd.

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