Darren New escreveu:
> 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.)

really?!  What was it?  An settable option for the compiler?

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