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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix bigotry
Message-ID: <2879@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 13 Feb 89 18:39:45 GMT
References: <3095@stiatl.UUCP>
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 > In article <2253@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@scolex.UUCP (Sean Fagan) writes:
 >>In article <440@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
 >>>This reminds me of someone I talked to a few weeks back, who commented
 >>>"Isn't it nice that Sun went and invented shared libraries?"
 >>
 >>That's just silly.
 >>We all *know* that it was AT&T that invented shared libraries!
 >>
 > Excuse me, but I believe DEC made shareable libraries part of
 > VMS long before AT&T or SUN made them part of Unix.

And long before that, I didn't even know that there were
non-sharable libraries. One of the astonishing facts I had to
learn when I started working with Dec/AT&T/Sun etc. was that the code
of library routines whas copied and linked to your program. What
a waste!
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