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==Intel didn't even have a processor when Relocatable Object Module was being generated ==

Intel didn't even have a processor when Relocatable Object Module was being generated in JCL decks on early IBM's using core memory. Heck, they may be older than that.. Any way the idea was that the ROM could be linked into a calling module - adding a base address to its relocatable address. Do the research ... <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:143.115.155.56|143.115.155.56]] ([[User talk:143.115.155.56|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/143.115.155.56|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

:Based on [httphttps://groups.google.co.ukcom/groupforum/?hl=en#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/browse_frm/thread/e376a2b332ff6b77/e1ac646b8ea9cc8c?lnk=st&q=%22What%27s+the+linkage+editor+really+wants%3F%22&rnum=1&hl=en#e1ac646b8ea9cc8c43aiszL_a3c this discussion(2006)] of JCL card formats for IBM systems, I'm pretty sure the format you're talking about is a different one that happened to be called by the same name. [[User:JulesH|JulesH]] 08:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

==Is this talking about the same standard?==

* [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3KBPxFKTY6kC&lpg=PA35&ots=xsQ85D75Io&dq=Xitan%20Neil%20Colvin&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=Xitan%20Neil%20Colvin&f=false Phoenix chief: to clone or not to clone?] By Ed Scannell, Page 35, 1987-05-18, Computerworld, ''Neil Colvin, chief executive officer and chief scientist at ... He was also a cofounder of Xitan, which developed various operating''</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1977-11-rescan/1977_11_BYTE_02-11_Memory_Mapped_IO#page/n199/mode/2up/search/tdl Technical Forum:Technical Design Labs Relocatable Object Module Code Format], Volume 02 Number 11, November 1977, Byte Magazine, ''..format used by Technical Design Labs, originated by Neil Colvin. This text was given to us at the TDL booth at the National Computer Conference in Dallas last June, and offered as documentation of a standard which is in use by that firm, and is reportedly being examined for adoption by two other major software vendors in the personal computing marketplace.''

[[User:So-retro-it-hurts|So-retro-it-hurts]] ([[User talk:So-retro-it-hurts|talk]]) 04:56, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Conference in Dallas last June, and offered as documentation of a standard which is in use by that firm, and is reportedly being examined for adoption by two other major software vendors in the personal computing marketplace.''

: No, it is talking about a hex file format similar to the [[Intel Hexadecimal Object File Format]].

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: --[[User:Matthiaspaul|Matthiaspaul]] ([[User talk:Matthiaspaul|talk]]) 17:44, 26 November 2023 (UTC)