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by beamatronic 2339 days ago
None of that matters to someone learning how to implement a stack, a linked list, quick sort, etc.
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planteen 2339 days ago
It does though, if you mix near and far pointers, you are going to be getting crashes. Pointer equality and comparison are non-trivial. Whereas on a modern 32-bit CPU you don't have any such distinction.
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beamatronic 2338 days ago
Wow, how did you learn all this stuff?
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