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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <387@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 28 Mar 91 04:32:58 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>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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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....

Or RCA TSOS, which had 'em in 1971.  The booger could support 55 users
in 1 meg of memory. (Of course the users were using ASR-33s for the most part).
 
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Warren Tucker, TuckerWare, Mountain Park, GA         wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
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