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From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Page size and linkers (was: Re: SunMMU history)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 01:38:15 GMT
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In article <3981@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
| An obvious improvement would be to have the linker order procedures ...
| Has this been done in any real systems?

Primos did (still does, I guess) this for a number of common programs,
like the line editor.