> On Dec 23, 2021, at 18:52, Jeff Brower <jbro...@signalogic.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike-
> 
>> I believe this comes from the era when RAM was limited and only one 
>> overlay/program could be loaded from the tape drive at a time
> 
> "tape drive" ... that's not an era, that's an epoch :-)

Not that long ago. QIC drives were standard, with optional harddrive, up until 
about twenty years ago with the 500 series generic & hardware... I guess it has 
been that long.

I think the limitation was more of contention. Maintenance overlays are limited 
to only one, but DMO (provisioning) overlays could mostly be accessed 
simultaneously, iirc. The original DMS-10 was slightly different and earlier 
than the standard DMS (DMS100 family), with a lot of stuff a bit cruder. 
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