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- From: etljmme@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Jim)
- Subject: Re: .com and .exe files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.172938.4327@ericsson.se>
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- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <1993Jan27.114320.14690@umr.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:29:38 GMT
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- In article 14690@umr.edu, mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
- >
- >[Original description of 64k limit for .com code deleted]
- >
- >Question: Can't com files use more than 64k? Once the program is going,
- >you can pretty much do what ever you want with the segment registers, and
- >request more memory, and access the full 640 k. I seem to remember a while
- >back that someone wrote a program (forth interpreter, if I remember
- >correctly) that is a .com file, but isn't limited by 64k.
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- The previous poster wasn't saying that .com files couldn't use more than
- 64k, he was saying that the actual code couldn't be >64k.
-
- Jim.
-