From: josef@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 25.11.24 18:33, mm0fmf wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > e.g.   
   > "   
   >      // start of barrel   
   >      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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