From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 26/11/2024 17:37, Josef Möllers wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   Backwards compatibility.   
   DOS came from 8080 based CP/M , to run on an 8086, to where 8 bit code   
   could be easily ported.   
      
   And so we were stick with that architecture.   
      
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   and   
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