On the good[1] old times of x86 segments, you still couldn't assign a segment to each array as segments were a limited resource. Something still has to do the m

On the good[1] old times of x86 segments, you still couldn't assign a segment to each array as segments were a limited resource. Something still has to do the mapping of the segments to physical linearly addressable memory. [1] spoiler alert: they were not good.