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Re:A 28-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE... by teh_klev on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:05AM (#33404191)
There was a technique that used a thing called overlays[0]. You could write a program that is much larger than the available address space (64k on MS/PCDOS) but you split it up into functional areas or modules that are loaded on demand into a reserved area of your 64k address space.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming)

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