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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
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Date: 28 Mar 91 05:04:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.073109.30717@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar21.035115.21842@NCoast.ORG> <14503@ulysses.att.com> <5084a913.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1991Mar23.000143.3652@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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In article <1991Mar23.000143.3652@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com
(Bob Goudreau) writes:
>In article <5084a913.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, vinoski@apollo.HP.COM
>(Stephen Vinoski) writes:
>> 
>> Yes, Sun invented shared libraries, even though Apollo has had them since
>> 1980 or 1981...   :-)
>
>Not to mention Multics....

Indeed. Organick's 1972 book does talk about shared procedures and dynamic
loading. DEC's VMS had sharable libraries since about 1979.

Everyone knows that Sun invented shared libraries. ;-)
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