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Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++

From Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com>
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers, openwatcom.users.c_cpp, comp.lang.c
Subject Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
Date 2025-11-02 12:57 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10e8d3v$2bc04$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (9 earlier) <hob9tl$dq7$1@naig.caltech.edu> <1e27d5ee-a1b1-45d9-9188-63ab37398e9f@d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <MPG.26137db0f4722b3d9896da@news.eternal-september.org> <87k4t1thk5.fsf@kilospaz.fatphil.org> <f51c9aec-550b-4720-97e0-8fa743524f59@b30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>

Cross-posted to 4 groups.

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On 3/25/10 03:02, Nick Keighley wrote:
> On 24 Mar, 23:40, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> Dann Corbit <dcor...@connx.com> writes:
>>> In article <1e27d5ee-a1b1-45d9-9188-
>>> 63ab37398...@d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
>>> nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com says...
>>
>>>> On 23 Mar, 20:56, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>>>> In alt.sys.pdp10 Richard Bos <ralt...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>>> (snip)
>>
>>>>>> That crossposting was, for once, not asinine. It served as a nice
>>>>>> example why, even now, Leenux weenies are not correct when they insist
>>>>>> that C has a flat memory model and all pointers are just numbers.
>>
>>>>> Well, you could also read the C standard to learn that.
>>
>>>> but if you say that you get accused of language lawyering.
>>>> "Since IBM stopped making 360s no C program ever needs to run on such
>>>> a platform"
>>
>>> We have customers who are running their business on harware from the mid
>>> 1980s.  It may sound ludicrous, but it if solves all of their business
>>> needs, and runs solid 24x365, why should they upgrade?
>>
>> Because they could run an equivalently computationally powerful
>> solution with various levels of redundancy and fail-over protection,
>> with a power budget sensibly measured in mere Watts?
> 
> does it have a Coral compiler?

There's a market for someone.

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Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++ Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-11-02 12:57 -0700

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