[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Aug 23 14:05:57 EDT 2012


On 2012-08-23 15:07, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <k13rgg$5sr$3 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>> You cannot truly and fully appreciate VMS unless you've experienced the
>> joys of overlays and TKB on RSTS/E or RSX.
>
>     You never ran TKB under the AME on VMS?  Just like RSX, except the
>     resulting task files were named .exe .
>
>     And left you wondering how the overlays interected with virtual
>     memory management.  I think the AME made it look like were were
>     running on an -11 with one hell of a lot of RAM.

No point. You cannot address more than 64K with a PDP-11, so even if you 
had 1 MB, you could not address it.

	Johnny




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