Shared libraries

[Brendan Kehoe]

In <1991Apr24.231048.2987 at Think.COM>, barmar at think.com writes:
>In article <718 at seqp4.UUCP> jdarcy at seqp4.ORG (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>>  Do you really think so many skilled and knowledgeable
>>OS developers would implement shared libraries if they weren't worth it?
>
>What I want to know is why it has taken so long for them to rediscover
>shared libraries.  Multics, the predecessor to Unix, was using
>dynamically-linked, shared libraries in the 60's.

    Is there a decent reason for the executables on a DecStation under
   Ultrix 4.1 still exceeding 3-4Mb in some cases?

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