On 2/21/2012 6:07 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote: > 16bit intel had 16bit segments and offsets, so memory was segmented > and you couldn't address more than 64kb at a time. > So you couldn't have grabbed^H^H"allocated" more than 64kb in real mode in intel > in a single linear block. size_t was 16 bits on all 16 bit memory models except the 'huge' one.