Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: A New Compiler Model Message-ID: <368@kontron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 12:09:59 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.368 Posted: Fri Jul 12 12:09:59 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 04:23:52 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 13 There are several different memory segmentation models on the 8086 family: small 64K code, 64K data medium many 64K code segments, 64K data segment large many 64K code segments, many 64K data segments One of the nice things about writing code in assembler for the PC is that you run the resulting .EXE file through EXE2BIN and get a .COM file. Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft (and everyone else) supported a new memory segmentation module with code and data in the same segment, so we could create .COM programs written in C? Maybe we could call it "miniscule" module.