Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??

Ozan Yigit oz at yunexus.yorku.ca
Thu Mar 28 15:04:19 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar23.000143.3652 at dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau at larrybud.rtp.dg.com
(Bob Goudreau) writes:
>In article <5084a913.20b6d at apollo.HP.COM>, vinoski at apollo.HP.COM
>(Stephen Vinoski) writes:
>> 
>> Yes, Sun invented shared libraries, even though Apollo has had them since
>> 1980 or 1981...   :-)
>
>Not to mention Multics....

Indeed. Organick's 1972 book does talk about shared procedures and dynamic
loading. DEC's VMS had sharable libraries since about 1979.

Everyone knows that Sun invented shared libraries. ;-)
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