On 2/21/2012 6:07 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:
16bit intel had 16bit segments and offsets, so memory was segmented and you couldn't address more than 64kb at a time. So you couldn't have grabbed^H^H"allocated" more than 64kb in real mode in intel in a single linear block.
size_t was 16 bits on all 16 bit memory models except the 'huge' one.
