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On 25.11.24 18:33, mm0fmf wrote:
[...]
> e.g.
> "
> ┬а┬а┬а // start of barrel
> ┬а┬а┬а EventRec far* searchp = (EventRec far*) work.bufs;
>
> "
>
>
> My eyes! My eyes! That was COMPACT model code, so 64k of code and 1MB of
> data, code addresses were 16bit offsets to the CS reg and data was far
> so 32 bits of segment and offset of DS or ES. And of course you had to
> be extra careful of any pointer arithmetic as a far pointer wrapped
> after 64k. You had to use slower HUGE pointers to get automatic
> normalisation. God it was shit.
>
And to consider that, at that time, processors like MC68000 or NS32016
were readily available.
Josef
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