In the DOS world, there were "near" and "far" pointers that would allow access to different memory segments. Even with this extra complexity, C did well. I und

In the DOS world, there were "near" and "far" pointers that would allow access to different memory segments. Even with this extra complexity, C did well. I understand that Microsoft tried to get these into ANSI C, but they were forcefully kiboshed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_pointer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_pointer