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Overlays? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming) I used to use Turbo C++ 3.0 (I think it was
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Overlays? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming)
I used to use Turbo C++ 3.0 (I think it was? - this was 1993) and overlays was one of the touted features, though I never used it.
- cagey 9y agoI recalled the acronym "VROOM" being associated with Borland's tools of this era, with the "OM" part meaning "Overlay Manager/Management"; a bit of searching yielded[1]: What is the VROOM in the Borland Turbo C++ ? 9/14/94 3:53 PM Hi! I very need information about usage VROOM in the Borland Turbo C++ or Borland C++. Thanks. Alex. VROOM is their overlay manager. That is, it allows you to write programs which execute in a conventional DOS memory (aka 640K) which is smaller than the size of the compiled program. For example, on a machine with 550K available conventional DOS memory, you can run a program 1Mb large. [...] [1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9ptZPcsR69QJ:https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.std.c%252B%252B/tFGw0zfKfdY+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9ptZPc...