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Conventional memory was limited to 640kb. Access to higher amounts of memory either required switching to protected mode or using XMS.
Additionally, there was the segmentation limit of 64k for pointers, which may have limited things in qbasic.
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Conventional memory was limited to 640kb. Access to higher amounts of memory either required switching to protected mode or using XMS.
Additionally, there was the segmentation limit of 64k for pointers, which may have limited things in qbasic.