{"id":942,"date":"2026-07-08T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:59:12","slug":"lets-code-ms-dos-0x38-huge-pointers-in-turbo-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Code MS DOS 0x38: Huge Pointers in Turbo C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let&#039;s Code MS DOS 0x38: Huge Pointers in Turbo C\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pf3s-6EVDoo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#8217;s Code MS DOS 0x38: Huge Pointers in Turbo C&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[147,148,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}