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Near and far are obsolete terms used in the MSDOS and Windows 3.x platforms on the 8086/8088 processor. Near represents an area of memory that can be accessed using only a 16 bit offset and, as such, must lie within the default data segment, and is always less than 64kb in size. Far represents an area of memory that must be accessed using both a 16 bit offset and a 16 bit segment and, as such, can lie anywhere in memory and be larger than 64kb, at the expense of additional processing time and program size.

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