TKB == Task Builder It was an overlay/linker program that shoe horned in the proverbial 10 tons of **** into a 1 pound package.
It is just amazing how much stuff people managed to get into that 16-bit address space... There were lots of interesting things you could do with it. And it was s l o w -----Original Message----- From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:47 PM To: Carl Friedberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmsperl Digest 2 Apr 2003 21:19:24 -0000 Issue 685 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:33:07AM -0500, Carl Friedberg wrote: > How would you describe TKB? As a disk exerciser? The first manufacturer > supplied computer virus? For us young'ins on the list whose oldest computer memory is a Commodore PET, what's TKB? -- Consistency? I'm sorry, Sir, but you obviously chose the wrong door. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
