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Because memory starts at zero, because the lowest address you can select in memory has all its address lines set to zero. If you don't understand this, you sho
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Because memory starts at zero, because the lowest address you can select in memory has all its address lines set to zero.
If you don't understand this, you should not be writing computer software.
- unnouinceput 4y agoWelcome to pagination and virtualization where physical address is different than what your program think is. Also welcome to hypervisors where entire operating systems think they own an entire physical line, only to have something like Spectre/Meltdown say otherwise.