[TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology!

[Steve Nickolas]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:

> Ralph is right.  You don't have to go any further than the old x86 
> implementations to find machines where the function pointers are bigger 
> than the data pointers.

It could get pretty baroque, depending on your memory model; as you had 
16-bit pointers and 32-bit (actually 20-bit because of the hairy way 
segmentation worked) pointers and what was used for what depended on 
compiler switches or the nonstandard "near" and "far" keywords (e.g., char 
far *screen=0xA0000000;).

-uso.