nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> I've never seen it done well unless the whole system was broken down 
>> into parallel operations and then optimized back into larger components. 
> 
> I read in the early days the programmer would manually break a program 
> into small chunks that could fit in the memory.  Eventually the process 
> became automated.

Yep. That's what "overlays" were. Now we have demand-paging.  (And it wasn't 
that "early". Any machine without virtual memory (and some with it) did 
that, including Amigas, IBM machines before the 386, 68000s, etc.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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