Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Date: 30 Aug 2025 19:34:34 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 31 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <108k7rn$e12$4@news.misty.com> <108l4vk$77t$1@gal.iecc.com> <108su32$3e8$1@news.misty.com> <108tdf1$2a7v9$2@dont-email.me> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="26103"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72802 alt.folklore.computers:231684 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= writes: >> Using overlays was never straightforward, on any OS. > Typical troll comment. > There are existance proofs counter to your unsupported blanket statement. > Burroughs medium systems for example, where using overlays was built into the > compilation tools (including the COBOL compiler) and the operating system. > Even the operating system used overlays for rarely used functionality. Far be it from me to defend the troll, but I will say that my experience (56 years and counting) agrees with his comment. IIRC, I have made changes to exactly one (1) overlaid program in all that time, having been forced to do that instead of a complete rewrite because it had to work quickly at the museum. That's with experience on OS/360, SVS and MVS on /370, Tops-10 and TOPS-20, and RSX-11M/-20F. Overlays are like a coyote ugly bed partner: I'd rather chew my arm off. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen