Shared libraries

[Stuart Lynne]

In article <32873 at news.Think.COM> barmar at think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <6256 at levels.sait.edu.au> CCDN at levels.sait.edu.au (david newall) writes:
>>UCSD p-System had the first implementation of shared libraries I know of.
>
>Did the p-System predate Multics, which was developed in the mid-60's?  It
>has had dynamically-linked, shared libraries for over 20 years.

UCSD Pascal 1.5 was first made available publicly in the spring of 1978.  I
think it had been in use and development for about two years at UCSD prior
to that.

I think we could revise the above statement read "the first implementation
of shared libraries on a PC". 


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