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It's biggest downside was that it was limited to producing 64KB .COM files until version 4 or 5.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's biggest downside was that it was limited to producing 64KB .COM files until version 4 or 5.
- acqq 3y agoAFAIK it was initially made to run on CP/M 8-bit systems, that 64 KB limit was a consequence. I know I've used it on CP/M first. It was really, really fast.
- dosk 3y agoThis is not TP compiler limit. It's format and memory model limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file#DOS_binary_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file#DOS_binary_format EXE (aka MZ) is using other memory models https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200728-00/?p=104012 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200728-00/?p=10...
- Narishma 3y agoThat's what I was saying. Turbo Pascal didn't support generating EXE files until version 4.