Win16 Memory Management
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jdw64
1 hour ago
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Sometimes I think that if it were the old days, I probably wouldn't have been able to program. I remember that these days we program on top of 64bit virtual addresses, but how did developers do it back then
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hnlmorg
17 minutes ago
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16 bit programs used 16 bit addresses, generally speaking.

Even with 32bit systems where you’d want more than 4GB RAM, application software still had 32 bit addresses (and thus 4GB memory limit).

I think it was a lot more common for 8bit systems to allow for 16 bit addressing though.

It’s been a while though. So hopefully I’m not misremembering things.

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kev009
40 minutes ago
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Attention spans were longer.
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GordonS
1 minute ago
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I've been wondering about this lately. As a kid, I spent hour upon hour learning about computing: typing in Basic code from a magazine into a Commodore 64, playing with music on an Atari STe, learning my way around a DOS command line, dabbling with 3D modelling... just so much stuff that my own kids would never have the patience for.

I wonder if it's just that kids today (gods that makes me sound old!) are constantly surrounded by entertaining things to do - gaming, TV/films, music, social media.

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