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==History==
The mdb project was started in 1997 by [[Mike Shapiro (programmer)|Mike Shapiro]] and others when the Solaris operating system was adding support for 64-bit architectures. Up until that point, Solaris was using the aging [[Advanced Debugger|adb]] debugger developed by [[Steve Bourne]] (initially for
It was very difficult to simply port adb from a 32-bit architecture to a 64-bit architecture, so Sun engineers decided to make a new debugger that would feature enhanced debugging capabilities, while being backward compatible with adb.
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