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Miscellaneous Forums => 16 bit DOS Programming => Topic started by: funfuny on July 02, 2008, 09:26:35 PM

Title: what is 16 bit programming?
Post by: funfuny on July 02, 2008, 09:26:35 PM
can someone explain me what is 16bit programming. I program with the most basic assembler, what is the diffrence and when can I get help in this assembler?
Title: Re: what is 16 bit programming?
Post by: Farabi on July 22, 2008, 06:01:48 AM
16-bit programming is an old way of programming. It registers can only hold a value at maximum 65535 (0xFFFF). On memory segmentation 16-bit programming can only use  memory at maximum 1 MB, also that memory is not protected so everyone can see that memory freely.