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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: automagic overlays?
Message-ID: <1939.273e786b@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 12 Nov 90 15:24:43 GMT
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In article <11043@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, jsp@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (John Pieper) writes:
> Is anybody out there old enough to remember when we used overlays?
> What I want to know is what is the current state of the art in 
> compiler-managed overlays: is this considered a solved problem, or did people
> just decide that since we had paging it was unimportant? 
> 
Boy, have you led a sheltered life.  Intel / IBM / Microsoft created
a memory limit of 640K for a very large universe of people who have
money to spend on software.  Overlay activity for that environment
is real if not technically interesting.

dan herrick
herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com