>> MS-DOS had an additional memory model known as Tiny, [..] Which was by far my favourite memory model;-) Coming from the 8-bit world all this segmentation, m

>> MS-DOS had an additional memory model known as Tiny, [..] Which was by far my favourite memory model;-) Coming from the 8-bit world all this segmentation, memory model, ES: DS: SS: ES:, far pointer, near pointer stuff confused me to no end. Adding to that the memory access scheme of the graphics card (bitplanes!) made it even worse. No wonder I almost transitioned directly from 8-bit to 32-bit Linux. I still somehow think of the 16-bit (PC) era as kind of the dark ages - a lost time I don't miss much - sandwiched between the glory of 8-bit and 32-bit times.