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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: want to know
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Date: 17 Aug 89 15:02:09 GMT
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In the previous operating systems I have used, the startup procedure was
done by the loader.  This is what is missing in UNIX; the loader does not
have the capability to produce the startup program, so that must be explicitly
put in.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)