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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DOS Extender/Heap Manager
Keywords: DOS Extender Heap
Message-ID: <155@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 90 20:06:14 GMT
References: <2078@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <2078@novavax.UUCP> raab@novavax.UUCP (Moshe Raab) writes:
/(I estimate that I need about 500K of conventional RAM just for data).
/1) RTLINK plus
/2) Rational Systems DOS/16M
/3) Coding for EMS support

Zortech C/C++ has an additional pointer type, called a __handle pointer,
which is used like a conventional pointer, but instead points into data
that is in EMS. The swapping of EMS pages in and out is handled
transparently.