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]>
