If you wanted to escew protection for ease of use, you could just map the unibus page into the user process and let them fiddle the attributes directly. Additi

If you wanted to escew protection for ease of use, you could just map the unibus page into the user process and let them fiddle the attributes directly. Additionally the 8kb pages were subdivided into 128B contiguous blocks, with a base and limit, allowing smaller granularity. The feature set that the 8086 gave you was more or less still available, there was just another option that was deemed more useful in most cases.