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Multics: Dynamic Linking Multics Multics (MIT/Bell/GE ... - Washington

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Postscript<br />

Why so complicated?<br />

Fine-grained sharing<br />

<strong>Dynamic</strong> linking<br />

Independent address spaces<br />

For the next 20 years, no one attempted dynamic linking<br />

and sharing at the same time<br />

Until <strong>MIT</strong> takes revenge:<br />

<strong>MIT</strong> X-windows: megabytes of X toolkits<br />

Need shared libraries<br />

Similar mechanisms are now standard in all major<br />

operating systems<br />

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