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From: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix bigotry
Keywords: AOS AOS/VS ACL threads tasks processes
Message-ID: <592@redsox.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 89 16:25:01 GMT
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Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <3095@stiatl.UUCP> todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman) writes:
}Excuse me, but I believe DEC made shareable libraries part of
}VMS long before AT&T or SUN made them part of Unix.

Sigh.  Sigh again.  Multics, designed in the mid-1960s and first running,
I would guess, around 1968, had shareable libraries.  No one should claim
to know anything about operating systems until they've read the Multics
literature.

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders
of giants."  -Newton (or was it Gauss?)

"In computer science, we stand on each others toes."  -author unknown
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