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