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		beamatronic on Jan 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one m... None of that matters to someone learning how to implement a stack, a linked list, quick sort, etc.

speleo_engr on Jan 22, 2020 [–]

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.

beamatronic on Jan 23, 2020 | [–]

Wow, how did you learn all this stuff?

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