On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:48:10 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: > >Tom, you're talking about folks who were familiar with writing programs >when virtual storage was very limited. MVT has been gone for a long >time.
Agreed. There is little, if any, need for overlay structures these days. I was taking exception to your statement that application programmers wouldn't be able to design one. >I know there are probably a few silver backs who could still >structure and write an overlay program, but I would be willing to bet >that the majority of today's application folks never even heard of >overlay Again I agree. Likewise system folks. >although it would be a good history lesson for an assembler >class. Assembler? Not really. Most of the overlay structures that we built were primarily COBOL, with the occasional Assembler subroutine. There's no need for assembler in an overlay structure. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
