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How would you obtain segment and offset addresses from a far address of a memory location?

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Pointers to far objects are stored using four bytes (32 bits). The bytes are stored little endian or low to high order. The first word contains the 14-bit memory offset (bits 14 and 15 are always 0). The second word contains the page number (or segment number for function pointers). The memory address is calculated as follows:

Variable Address (Page * 0x4000L) + Offset

Function Address (Segment * 0x10000L) + Offset

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