[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Aug 23 14:34:37 EDT 2012


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.
> 

Took me maybe 2 months to get used to VMS, vs RSTS/E, and then I never 
looked back.



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