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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:07:02 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> The 64K barrier was alive and well on the 8086/8.
> I wrote a lot of horrible code to deal with large arrays. Then there
> were all the memory models: tiny, small, large,
> huge... yuck.

That is my fondest memory of the time. Which memory model and libraries 
did you want to use?  There were also the medium and compact models.