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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Shared libraries
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Date: 15 Jan 90 05:17:01 GMT
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In article <6256@levels.sait.edu.au> CCDN@levels.sait.edu.au (david newall) writes:
>UCSD p-System had the first implementation of shared libraries I know of.

Did the p-System predate Multics, which was developed in the mid-60's?  It
has had dynamically-linked, shared libraries for over 20 years.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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