[Info-vax] How things have changed (was Re: VMS 8.4-2L1 on AXPBox)

[Hunter Goatley]

On 1/4/2021 11:08 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>
> Yup... to the point that, on my first job, in order to avoid builds
> during the day (we had one every night), for small modifications, we
> would compile /MACHINE_CODE, and then use the compiler listing to PATCH
> the modification directly in the existing executable. Was way faster,
> even considering mistakes...
> 
HA! That's great. Most of what I was doing back then was MACRO-32, so it 
didn't matter, but your method would have been interesting for the 
products written in BASIC! 8-)

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