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Speculation: each page had its own memory segment, and the page drawing (rendering) routine was designed to work with 16-bit NEAR pointers within the segment.
In the 16-bit world of Windows 2.x and 3.x, memory management informed the program architecture to a large degree. Each pointer could be NEAR or FAR (or HUGE), with tradeoffs in size, performance and ...
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