If only they did dynamically bind ... far too many changes require a 
reboot and this means that they are still using linking loaders to do 
quite a bit of integration of changes ...

Cheers,

Alan

At 07:58 AM 5/21/2007, Alan Lovejoy wrote:

><Alan Kay>As Dan Ingalls used to say: "An operating system is just the stuff
>left out of the programming language -- if you don't leave it out, then you
>don't need the OS".</Alan Kay>
>
>And one of the most critical things left out of most programming languages
>is dynamic binding (and often even static linking,) which is why operating
>systems commonly provide both capabilities.  In fact, the operating system
>is essentially that body of common, shared code that is dynamically
>bound/linked to application programs.  Dynamically binding applications to
>that common code base is the primary purpose of the OS.
>
>--Alan