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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yeokm1 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @04:56AM (#21833459)
Win 3.1 apps can also access memory in 64K segments which I only use 1 to hold the humongous HTTP+JSON reply from Slack.

Wikipedia says "However, no single process can use more than 16 MB.". Not sure where is the source of that though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by tinus_hn on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:02AM (#21834124)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_mode

It’s a limitation from the 286 Protected Mode.

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