[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Aug 23 10:06:34 EDT 2012


Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> In article <k13ci1$a5l$5 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
 
>> What was truly torture was the overlay definitions.

>   IMHO, TBK overlay defintions were not as bad as IBM OS/360 linker
>   overlay definitions.

I did a few times work with OS/360 overlays, and they were 
pretty easy. I have heard stories about DOS/360 overlays, though.
It seems that they were very different.

>   I recall going from an 11/34 (not even an 11/34A), to an 11/44 and
>   rewriting from disk resident to memory resident overlays.

-- glen



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