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But then you'd end up wasting memory because the address space it would be divided into 64K blocks. The first PC had only 16KB of RAM but 128KB was probably mo
by wvenable 2y ago
But then you'd end up wasting memory because the address space it would be divided into 64K blocks. The first PC had only 16KB of RAM but 128KB was probably more common. With the segments setup the way you describe a 128KB machine could use only 2 segment addresses out of 65,536 -- not very efficient or useful for relocating code and data.