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From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, pnr@planet.nl
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Early shared library implementations
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:15:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F332D05-2781-4856-B6B9-D05AE3FA9169@eschatologist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202109301039.18UAdT0F026748@freefriends.org>

On Sep 30, 2021, at 3:39 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> In more or less the same time frame, the AT&T UnixPC / 3B1, which was
> OEM'ed from Convergent, had shared libraries.  This was ~ 1986.
> 
> I don't know the details of how it worked and how one built the shared
> libraries; I am sure that it was an independent implementation from Sun's.
> 
> This was done on top of a System V Release 2 kernel.  Later versions
> of the OS had some bits of the SVR3 user land, but the kernel remained
> SVR2 based.

Apple A/UX was also SVR2-based and had shared libraries. I wonder if it was a similar implementation. (The porting work for A/UX was initially done by UniSoft, from what I recall.)

  — Chris
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-17 22:16 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
2021-10-17 22:15   ` Chris Hanson [this message]
2021-09-30 12:56 ` [TUHS] mmap origin (was Systematic approach to command-line interfaces) Dan Halbert

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