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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] shared objects in Unix
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:00:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01f301d3c7d3$4abb1d80$e0315880$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2O8iAMhmywzywVkAZqzcHELH5fDLsc+HtwArh2Ft=yoPA@mail.gmail.com>

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I’m fairly sure Unix didn’t invent the dynamic linking symbol preemption.    It was fundamental in the UNIVAC Exec8 operating system.  

 

EXEC8 also predates UNIX on the concept of fork() (or as they call it ER FORK$).

 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-30  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29 21:37 Paul Winalski
2018-03-29 22:01 ` Henry Bent
2018-03-29 22:26 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-29 23:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-29 23:22   ` Warner Losh
2018-03-29 23:24   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30  0:22     ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30  1:46       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30  4:28         ` Clem cole
2018-03-30 20:52           ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-30 22:42             ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 23:29               ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-03 15:49               ` Derek Fawcus
2018-03-30  1:20   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-30  0:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30  1:35   ` Charles H. Sauer
2018-03-30  2:10     ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30  2:34       ` Charles H. Sauer
2018-03-30  3:04         ` Warner Losh
2018-03-30 20:33         ` Charles H Sauer
2018-03-30  3:00   ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2018-03-30 21:53   ` Steve Johnson

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