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From: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
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Date: 22 Mar 91 15:27:00 GMT
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In article <14503@ulysses.att.com> cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese) writes:
>sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries.  It is assumed
>that the SunOS style ones will be the standard, but I don't know of
>any plans to get rid of the older ones.  On the other hand, I'm
>neither a sVr4 guru nor a shared lib guru.

Yes, Sun invented shared libraries, even though Apollo has had them since
1980 or 1981...   :-)


-steve
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