18 Oct
2021
18 Oct
'21
4:15 a.m.
On Sep 30, 2021, at 3:39 AM, arnold(a)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