linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:54:08 -0700
From:	"Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@...il.com>
To:	"Torsten Duwe" <duwe@....de>
Cc:	"Grozdan Nikolov" <microchip@...llo.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?

>
> > hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x [...]
> Yes, but that was pretty cumbersome. You had to resolve the symbols in user
> space, using a hopefully matching /vmunix. Linux was first to feature an
> in-kernel linker and symbol table, IIRC.
>
>

Err, uh, no- I believe that Solaris development for this at the very
least predates even 0.59 linux- I think it was Joe Provino at Sun ECD
near Boston who gave us a working prototype in early 1989.
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