Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??

Chris Lewis clewis at ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Wed Mar 27 03:07:57 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar24.172224.4514 at yenta.alb.nm.us> dt at yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>myamin at cbnewsm.att.com (m.yamin) writes:

>>In fact, the UnixPC may have had the first released UNIX implementation
>>of shared libraries.

>Which brings up a historical question I've wondered about:  was the unix pc
>the first unix machine to feature dynamically loadable device drivers?

Nope.  Coherent had 'em back in '81-'82.  Or, at least, our port did.  (Well,
you could argue that Coherent's not UNIX, but it was a lot closer to UNIX then
than it is now).
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