Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PC/IX, Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Date: 30 Aug 2025 05:54:34 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <108l4vk$77t$1@gal.iecc.com> <108smt4$2pi1$1@gal.iecc.com> <108sqta$256ak$8@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xLZJSpq35Ie0zpaIJBoN/A9tT5xGg0G4RsZhTMjPoM7kCkF5DX Cancel-Lock: sha1:vsH6Ftx7400+3Jd4ht9iNwzH+Wo= sha256:t1BnRqEDBqhuB7aWACoKEPU+Mpby+ZGx2sXCEKByqZQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72709 alt.folklore.computers:231665 On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:51:17 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > It was for us. We needed all that memory. It was only a few years ago > that I finally got rid of all the hacks I wrote in to normalize pointers > and deal with segment wrap-arounds. It was horrible. Forget the 640K > barrier - the 64K barrier was alive and well on the 8086/8088/80286. Tiny, Small, Large, Bigger & Humongous. I have the names wrong but I'm pretty sure there were 5 sets of libraries that you had to chose to do a build. Then there was what was referred to as the 'thunk' in DJGPP circles when you need to get real.