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Re: data structures >64Kb

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From: jim
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 16:48
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In article <seant.35.0@sunfish.ratsys.com> seant@sunfish.ratsys.com
(Sean D. True) writes:

>I assume that this is true *only* on a 386 or better machine. I think the 
>complaints were pointed towards real-mode and/or 16-bit compilers.

yup.  that is how I meant it.  more to the point, I'd like it to be able
to run even on an old xt clone (granted, things on an xt aren't going to
be blindingly fast, but there are lots of xt machines still lurking in
the shadows out there).

and, of course, it's probably a pointless issue, since the compiler vendors
for dos machines aren't likely to do anything about it....  :-(  as we all
know, that (in their opinion, at least) is a feature, not a bug.

   --jim

DISCLAIMER:  My cat typed this for me, and I didn't proofread it.  The above
may not represent what I said (she changes things to match *HER* opinions).
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Subject: Re: data structures >64Kb
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