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by dosk 927 days ago
This is not TP compiler limit. It's format and memory model limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file#DOS_binary_format

EXE (aka MZ) is using other memory models

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200728-00/?p=10...

1 comments

That's what I was saying. Turbo Pascal didn't support generating EXE files until version 4.