Paging Mechanism in Protected Mode

Paging Mechanism The compiler treats addresses as contiguous sequences, known as linear addresses. In a segmented-only model, the CPU treats linear addresses as physical addresses directly. However, this traditional approach has significant limitations: Segmentation requires each segment's memory to be contiguous. When allocating large memory ...

Posted on Tue, 19 May 2026 22:39:43 +0000 by NTM