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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <655@adpplz.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:21:10 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> <387@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
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In <387@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) writes:

>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).

I have remained silent for too long, I can't stand it any more,

How about Reality, where all the binaries are one shared library, and 
there is NO static linking. WE could support 64 users in 1 meg of memory, 
nyah nyah nyah... (Until our application programmers found structured
methodologies)

And Reality's zero date is before unix's zero date.


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