what is a far pointer

Answer Posted / gopal

Far Pointer: A far pointer is that which will point anywhere
in the X MB across segments by containing segment+offset .
far pointers are the normalized pointers of four bytes which
are used to access the main memory of the computer ?it can
access both the data segment and code segment thus by
modifying the offset u can modify refer two different
addresses but refer to the same memory .
Far pointers are not Normalized.

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