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- From: lehner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Alexander Lehner)
- Subject: Re: .com and .exe files
- References: <1993Jan25.231026.6514@news.unomaha.edu> <1993Jan26.201921.21687@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <C1HtvM.Eun@world.std.com> <1993Jan27.114320.14690@umr.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:00:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.170003.7495@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1993Jan27.114320.14690@umr.edu>, mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
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- |> Question: Can't com files use more than 64k? Once the program is going,
- |> you can pretty much do what ever you want with the segment registers, and
- |> request more memory, and access the full 640 k. I seem to remember a while
- |> back that someone wrote a program (forth interpreter, if I remember
- |> correctly) that is a .com file, but isn't limited by 64k.
- |>
- |> mrc
- |> --
- |> Mike Castle .-=NEXUS=-. Life is like a clock: You can work constantly
- |> mcastle@cs.umr.edu and be right all the time, or not work at all
- |> S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
- |> We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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- Of course you can reload code data (think of overlays), but when doing this its
- quite the same way as DOS does with the .EXE files :-)
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