[net.micro.pc] Large Model Lattice C

BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (10/12/83)

From:  Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB>

We have a beta test site Lattice large model C.  Everybody on the net
seems to be giving Lattice a hard time so I thought I'd just mention
that there is a large model Lattice C.  As it appears to work OK I
expect it should be announced pretty soon.

The Lattice system allows various combinations of large and small
address spaces.  It is possible to limit code to 64K and use short
calls while allowing data to exceed 64K using long pointers.

They haven't yet figured out a way to have large program space and
small data space as data pointers would be 16 bits and procedure
pointers 20 bits.  If you need a large program space you must also use
large data space.  One restriction is that offsets to pointers must be
16 bits or less.

One thing I would like to do in C is upgrade Mince to take path names.
Has anyone done this?