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Wow.... I remember writing 8086 assembly on MASM and another assembler I've forgotten the name of, and then also doing inline ASM in Turbo C++ The segment thin
by deftio 3mo ago
Wow.... I remember writing 8086 assembly on MASM and another assembler I've forgotten the name of, and then also doing inline ASM in Turbo C++
The segment thing and the convoluted different pointer math caused real gymnastics if you ever had data bigger than 64k... such as images.
I always thought of the segments as windows of 64k but moving between those windows, esp with the limited register set, required some real mental gymnastics.
- trollbridge 3mo agoContemporary hardware rarely had images over 64k and memory bandwidth at the time made them a laughable concept.