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From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
To: gingell@computer.org, Rob Gingell via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Early shared library implementations
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:19:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7229A3F9-71B9-4968-9358-1FDC01342794@eschatologist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4537dd3-dd91-e48a-aa7b-70967e2943f5@computer.org>

On Oct 10, 2021, at 11:43 PM, Rob Gingell via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> There was also SVR3 (which I believe was the basis for the referenced AIX 3 shared library work). SVR3 shipped in 1987, SunOS 4 in May 1988.
> 
> There was a swarm of UNIX shared library projects during the 1980s. Some of those preceded or were occurring contemporaneously with SunOS 4. Many reached at least a running prototype stage, perhaps deployed as specials for customers, and some reached product status.

I believe NEXTSTEP 1.0 supported shared libraries out of the box too, probably from work on Mach or the Andrew system at CMU.

  — Chris


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-17 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-30  9:01 [TUHS] mmap origin (was Systematic approach to command-line interfaces) Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-09-30 10:39 ` [TUHS] Early shared library implementations arnold
2021-09-30 14:12   ` Charles H Sauer
2021-10-11  6:43   ` Rob Gingell via TUHS
2021-10-11  7:08     ` George Michaelson
2021-10-11 14:22       ` Clem Cole
2021-10-17 22:19     ` Chris Hanson [this message]
2021-10-17 22:15   ` Chris Hanson
2021-09-30 12:56 ` [TUHS] mmap origin (was Systematic approach to command-line interfaces) Dan Halbert

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