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From: mike@smu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Need Advice -vs- 8088 is wonderf - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 00:48:58 EST
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smu!mike    Mar 23 09:50:00 1984

Wait a minute...

It seems to me that a compiler's difficulty in dealing with a
segmented address space is just that: the compiler's difficulty.  I
have worked with many compilers that are able to produce large-model
code for an 86/88 processor, and one of them is a C compiler (ex from
Mark Williams, now sold by Intel).  Admittedly, it is a true pain in
the neck to deal with individual data structures larger than 64K in
size on the 8088, but in my experience that doesn't happen *too* often
(only when writing the interesting stuff, it seems).  But I think we
should look to the compiler folks when placing the blame for
small-model only code.

Mike McNally
...allegra!parsec!smu!mike