[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:41:21 -0400, David Froble wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:33:22 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:10 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>>> 32 bit is limited to a maximum of 4GB. One won't be able to do a lot
>>>>> with that with today's software requirements.
>>>> TKB
>>> WTF is TKB?
>> 
>> The RSX Task Builder, which was the equivalent of the LINK command on
>> RT-11 and VMS.
>> 
>> On both RT-11 and VMS, LINK was usually quite swift.  TKB was like
>> watching paint dry in comparison.
>> 
>> 
> Well at least you could walk away from it.
> 
> What was truly torture was the overlay definitions.

I used to enjoy doing overlays, at least on the RT-11.

But I was glad when we got more memory and I could make a couple of 
modules in our order entry programs co-resident rather than overlaying 
each other for every order line entered.

-- 
Paul Sture