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- System Reuqirements for A86
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- A86 requires MS-DOS V2.00 or later. No BIOS or lower-level calls are made
- by A86, so A86 should run on any MS-DOS machine. Please let me know if you
- find this not to be the case.
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- To achieve its blazing speed, A86 is something of a memory hog. A86 allocates
- separate segments for itself, its stack, its source file, and its output file.
- A86 itself now occupies about 15K; it always takes a full 64K for the stack.
- A86 splits the remaining available memory between its source file and its
- output file. It allocates a minimum of 8K apiece; and a maximum of 64K
- apiece. Thus A86 requires at least 95K; but it will consume up to 207K if
- available.
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- Careful reading of the above paragraph reveals that in a small-memory system
- A86 severely limits the size of source files. But remember that this doesn't
- hurt you badly: you can split up source files with impunity. A86 assembles
- a sequence of files as if it were a single source stream (similar to the
- INCLUDE facility of other assemblers).
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