to the point where they can be loaded in and out as needed.

Historical use

IBM introduced the concept of a chain jobin FORTRAN II. The program had to explicitly call the CHAIN subroutine to load a new link,and the new link replaced all of the old link's storage except for the Fortran COMMON area.

IBM introduced more general overlay handling in IBSYS/IBJOB,

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