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RE: BPCS History

> From: Steve Richter
> 
> Doesnt UNIX have DLLs?  DLLs in WIN32 could be used to provide
external
> program call functionality.

Well, I know Unix has shared objects (.so) which are functionally
equivalent to DLLs, but I don't know how powerful they were, especially
back in the mid-90s.  Remember, we were talking about 25MHz machines
with memory measured in MB (if you were lucky), not GB.  And if I
remember correctly, back in those days DLL programming was pretty much a
black art, and so I suspect was shared objects.  I do remember that
threading issues came up often in debugging sessions; maybe that was a
consideration.  I don't know, I deferred to the Unix experts on this
stuff.

Joe

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