History
The spawn metaphor, i.e., to produce offspring as in egg deposition, had its early use in the VMS, now openVMS, operating system (1977). In academia, there existed a lively debate between proponents of the Unix fork (crude copy of memory layout, but fast) versus VMS's spawn (reliable construction of process parameters, but slower). This debate revived when the VMS spawning mechanism was inherited by Windows NT (1993).
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