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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: A New Compiler Model
Message-ID: <716@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:17:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 06:17:18 1985
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In article <368@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>One of the nice things about writing code in assembler for the PC is that
>you run the resulting .EXE file through EXE2BIN and get a .COM file.  
>Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft (and everyone else) supported a new
>memory segmentation module with code and data in the same segment, so
>we could create .COM programs written in C?

The Datalight C compiler explicitly supports this memory model.