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Maynard Handley <maynardh@apple.com> wrote:
>
>Well let's see. The first versions of UNIX omitted DLLs, graphics, 
>threads and SMP from the OS. All pretty well understood basic stuff I 
>would say. Gee, those UNIX designers must have been real idiots. I'm sure 
>it had nothing to do with the fact that the OS they were designing had 
>the same sort of memory constraints as the original mac.
>

I got through the above paragraph and didn't even bother to read the rest
of your post.

Absolutely none of the "features" you've mentioned existed when the first
version of Unix was written -- well, there were plotters and some basic
oscilliscope based graphics at the time.  It was at least another 10 years,
and probably more like 20, before SMP hardware was invented.

Also, DLLs are a Microsoft oddity.  Vectored libraries are ok, if you
don't mind the performance hit.  The functionality as been added to Linux
and I'm not planning on doing anything critically fast so I'll probably
use them.

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