I definitely agree with you on that, Jordan. In fact, as I recall, I created quite a
few ODLs which were insoluble...
Carl
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From: Henderson, Jordan (Contractor) (DAASC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 4/3/2003 4:52 PM
To: Carl Friedberg; Michael G Schwern
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Subject: RE: vmsperl Digest 2 Apr 2003 21:19:24 -0000 Issue 685
It actually wrote code into the image to manage overlays of code to swap in and
out so as to allow the program to be virtually much larger than the 16-bit
address space. It actually did a fair job of optimizing the set of code that
was in at one time.
It was slow, but the problem it was solving was non-trivial.
-Jordan Henderson
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and
self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part,
humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Friedberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:43 PM
> To: Michael G Schwern
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: vmsperl Digest 2 Apr 2003 21:19:24 -0000 Issue 685
>
> TKB == Task Builder
>
> It was an overlay/linker program that shoe horned in the proverbial 10
> tons of **** into a 1 pound package.
>
> It is just amazing how much stuff people managed to get into that 16-bit
> address space...
>
> There were lots of interesting things you could do with it.
>
> And it was s l o w
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: Carl Friedberg
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: vmsperl Digest 2 Apr 2003 21:19:24 -0000 Issue 685
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:33:07AM -0500, Carl Friedberg wrote:
> > How would you describe TKB? As a disk exerciser? The first manufacturer
> > supplied computer virus?
>
> For us young'ins on the list whose oldest computer memory is a Commodore
> PET,
> what's TKB?
>
>
> --
> Consistency? I'm sorry, Sir, but you obviously chose the wrong door.
> -- Jarkko Hietaniemi in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
