Re: why the 16meg space size limit? -- MI400

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Subject: Re: why the 16meg space size limit?
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:53:19 -0500

From: Steve Richter

Is there enough room in the 16 byte ptr for a 4 byte, 6 byte offset from the base?

The 16meg limit seems to be an architectural anachronism, similar to the pc dos segment memory model.

===>because the way system pointers are constructed, OBJECTS have the limit. But objects can contain

addresses that point to non-object 'areas' of any size.

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