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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.170757.12746@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:07:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar24.172224.4514@yenta.alb.nm.us> dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>myamin@cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) writes:

>>In fact, the UnixPC may have had the first released UNIX implementation
>>of shared libraries.

>Which brings up a historical question I've wondered about:  was the unix pc
>the first unix machine to feature dynamically loadable device drivers?

Nope.  Coherent had 'em back in '81-'82.  Or, at least, our port did.  (Well,
you could argue that Coherent's not UNIX, but it was a lot closer to UNIX then
than it is now).
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