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I 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 yi
by cagey 9y ago
I 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.
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