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From: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: loading (was Re: IBM PC prehistory)
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Date: 18 Jan 90 05:38:03 GMT
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In article <6792@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>This reminds me, has anyone even made a linker and/or loader system that can
>load into multiple fragments of a non-MMU'd memory?

Yeah, ancient IBM OS/MVT OS/MFT had a "scatter" loader. Boy, could you ever
fragment memory and wedge your machine with it. Ugly.



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