> Doesn't make much sense to me at least.
> 
> Who still codes in 16 bit or turbo pascal ?

A few.
 
> 64 KB programs ?

> Terrible limitations.

Agreed, but the FPC mode doesn't have these limitations. It is a TP dialect
compability, but otherwise a full 32/64 bit mode. The compiler itself is
written in it for a large part.

IOW one can probably perfectly write 64-bit compatible TP code and use a few 
tens of
GBs of memory. 
 
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