I have to chime in when it comes to the topic that just doesn’t want to die: LLMs and AI. What do I see as the issues with LLMs? Are they ok for use in retro computing projects? Are LLMs the work of the devil? Of course, there will be lots of opinions from myself in this video, but I try to be as objective as I can.
Month: July 2026
Let’s Code MS DOS 0x38: Huge Pointers in Turbo C
In MS DOS you can only access up to one Megabyte of memory easily, on an original PC or XT. This memory in turn is segmented, so accessing more than 64K at a time becomes a bit more tricky. This is why languages like Turbo C and Pascal introduced near and far pointers to the programmer. However there are also huge pointers, which we will investigate in this episode.