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X11 used shared libraries since its beginning in the 1980s.
by frank2 6y ago
X11 used shared libraries since its beginning in the 1980s.
- the_why_of_y 6y agoSunOS paper about shared libraries, 1987 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.9514 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.9... SunOS 4.0 lists "dynamic linking" as new feature, released 1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS AT&T System V Release 3 got shared libraries in 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4#SVR3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4#SVR3 While the first X11 release was in 1987, the fundamental architecture was designed already since 1984, and this architecture includes a heavyweight server that implements things that in most other window systems are done client-side.