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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <6859@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 21:38:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: auspex.6859
References: <1991Mar21.035115.21842@NCoast.ORG> <14503@ulysses.att.com> <5084a913.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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>Yes, Sun invented shared libraries, even though Apollo has had them since
>1980 or 1981...   :-)

He didn't say Sun had, he was just noting that SVR4 picked up the SunOS
implementation.  Who knows, perhaps they would have picked up the Apollo
implementation, had Apollo been smart enough to license it for UNIX
systems (the same could be said for a number of other aspects of
Apollo's systems...).

(Apollo, of course, didn't invent them, either.)