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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
Message-ID: <#8!+FNP@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 00:01:01 GMT
References: <136@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <718@seqp4.UUCP> <1991Apr24.231048.2987@Think.COM>
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In <1991Apr24.231048.2987@Think.COM>, barmar@think.com writes:
>In article <718@seqp4.UUCP> jdarcy@seqp4.ORG (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>>  Do you really think so many skilled and knowledgeable
>>OS developers would implement shared libraries if they weren't worth it?
>
>What I want to know is why it has taken so long for them to rediscover
>shared libraries.  Multics, the predecessor to Unix, was using
>dynamically-linked, shared libraries in the 60's.

    Is there a decent reason for the executables on a DecStation under
   Ultrix 4.1 still exceeding 3-4Mb in some cases?

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