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Buggifying critical core modules

Posted Mar 19, 2008 17:07 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Buggifying critical core modules by jengelh
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?

Not applicable. DOS isn't a POSIX system.

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Posted Apr 7, 2008 8:00 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

So what? You do not need DOS to make a compiler output far/near-based pointers. What it
requires is  I think  that the CPU is in real mode because that's where far/near pointers
make most sense.