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On 2024-08-23, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:17:56 +0100
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> I don't recall them ever appearing in C source. They are not part of the
>> C language.
>
> No they are not - but they did appear as extensions in every
> 8086/80286 compiler I ever used.
>
>> AIR you could compile for 'small model' or 'large model'
>
> There were several models available (tiny had one segment shared for
> code and data, small had separate code and data then there were mixed small
> code large data and vice versa). These set the memory mapping and the
> default sizes of pointers but the near and far keywords could override
> those defaults in some models.
>
> It was *horrible*, the 80386 was a breath of fresh air.
Not if you were stuck programming for MS-DOS or Windows, unfortunately.
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