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From: ix264@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (ix264)
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Subject: 8086 large model compiler?
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 20:33:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 20:33:24 1986
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     I have just bought an AT&T 6300 (an 8086 machine) and SCO Xenix.
I am very happy with both apart from 1 grave difficulty.  As a
mathematician, I had hoped to do some calculations with fairly
large matrices or linked lists.  It develops, however, that the
Microsoft C compiler limits me to 64k of data in any program.
That is, in words I didn't understand until yesterday, it
produces only small or middle model code executable on the 8086.
So for many of my purposes, I have a not very useful machine.
Live and learn.  
     Is there any way around this?  I am willing to pay for
software, but not for a new machine.  I don't know about
computer architecture or assembly language programming, and I
don't want to learn (how's that for a hardened user? :-).  If
there's no alternative to that, though, I'm willing.  What
I hope to find would be either

1. Some sort of software letting my existing compiler and
operating system use the memory it seems to me is right in front
of their faces (is my frustration showing?), or

2. Another compiler which can produce code executable on the
8086 using lots of memory for data, either static or dynamic or
both, I don't care.  Ideally it would run under Xenix, but
MS-DOS is fine.  I'd prefer C, but am willing to look at other
languages.  Do such compilers exist, or are they impossible
under the constraints of the 8086?

     Probably these questions are unutterably stupid to the
cognescenti, but I still need help.  If anyone can give me a
pointer (a far pointer? :-) to their solution, you will make my
week.  I'll take you to dinner, pay money, post summaries to the
net, whatever you desire.  Profuse thanks in advance.
                            Tim McLarnan
                            Math Dept., UC San Diego
                            ix264@sdcc6
                            (619) 566-6168