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A 16 bit application is any software written for MS-DOS or early versions of Microsoft Windows which originally ran on the 16-bit Intel 8088 and Intel 80286 microprocessors. Such applications used a 20- bit segment-offset address representation to extend the range of addressable memory locations beyond what was possible using only 16-bit addresses. Programs containing more than bytes (64 kilobytes) of instructions and data therefore required special routines to switch between their 64-kilobyte segments, increasing the complexity of programming 16-bit applications.

N-bit computers
2-bit | 4-bit | 8-bit | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | 128-bit
N-bit applications
2-bit application | 4-bit application | 8-bit application | 16-bit application | 32-bit application | 64-bit application | 128-bit application

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This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is used under the GFDL.

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