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   On 2024-11-27, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
      
   > On 26/11/2024 17:37, Josef Möllers wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 25.11.24 18:33, mm0fmf wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   Intel put the "backward" in "backward compatible".   
      
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