> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place Mmmh, there was a time when PC's had non-linear memory [1] Coding for this was

> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place Mmmh, there was a time when PC's had non-linear memory [1] Coding for this was IIRC an effing nightmare. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation