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Subject: Re: String Handling and run-time libraries
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 15:18:10 EST
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>Since Sun is working on making their system SVID compatible
>the wait shouldn't be too long now.

This does not follow at all.  The SVID does not describe shared
libraries; this is the correct thing for it to do, since there may be
machines out there for which shared libraries are difficult to
implement.  If we do shared libraries, it won't be because of the
SVID.

>If I remember correctly Apollo has always had resident libraries, but then
>I've never even as much as seen an Apollo product.

They do.