Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : Single Stage to Orbit
Date : Thu Aug 22 2024 11:00:26

On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 09:17 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> IIRC 8086 was the same for conditional jumps.
> 
> In fact the whole small model thing was coding for a 64k page.
> 
> There were a few instructions that worked across pages...but my
> memory is dim.

FAR and NEAR specifiers used with JMP were often used for intra segment
calls. Data could also be accessed with the same specifiers too, hence
there were five different memmory models, tiny, small, medium, large
and huge with different code and data accesses.
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Tactical Nuclear Kittens

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