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- From: sweh@spuddy.uucp (Stephen Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for BP 7.1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.221442.2677@spuddy.uucp>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:14:42 GMT
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- In article <Bzz3v8.FzL@netnews.jhuapl.edu> mfein@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Feinstein Matthew R. F1B x6554 ) writes:
- >Here's a modest proposal for BP "7.1" : give us a complete set of
- >predefined selectors covering the whole lowest megabyte, like
- >Seg0000, Seg1000, Seg2000, ... , SegF000. This would be real useful
- >for those of us with non-standard memory mapped devices.
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- And a second proposal:
- for DPMI and Windows programs allow arrays to break the 64Kb limit.
- Heck, maybe even for DOS mode as well....
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- I just bought BCC++3.1, and the Pharrlap Lite shows a demo program
- accessing 1Mb arrays, so why can't Borland add this to Pascal?
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- I'd probably get the upgrade for this alone!
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- Stephen Harris
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