[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k13ci1$a5l$5 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 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.

Can't speak for RSX and TKB but I've done (and actually still do once
in a while) overlays in Ultrix-11 and never found it all that difficult.
Needed to get good at it just to make usable kernels. :-)

bill

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