🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan27.114320.14690@umr.edu>, mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
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|> Question:  Can't com files use more than 64k?  Once the program is going,
|> you can pretty much do what ever you want with the segment registers, and
|> request more memory, and access the full 640 k.  I seem to remember a while
|> back that someone wrote a program (forth interpreter, if I remember 
|> correctly) that is a .com file, but isn't limited by 64k.
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|> mrc
|> -- 
|> Mike Castle .-=NEXUS=-.  Life is like a clock:  You can work constantly
|>   mcastle@cs.umr.edu     and be right all the time, or not work at all
|> S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU   and be right at least twice a day.  -- mrc
|>     We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.  -- Watchmen

Of course you can reload code data (think of overlays), but when doing this its
quite the same way as DOS does with the .EXE files :-)

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