Virtual vs Physical memory (was Re: Designing around a 6502 )

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Feb 12 13:48:09 2003

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> Hi Hans
> Then you'll love the Z8000. Its segments are non-overlapping
> ( unless a mmu makes them so ).
> I like the 186 myself but have to admit that the time for
> segmented memory has passed, in general purpose computing.
> Dwight

Yet for all practical purposes you only have a few
segments so almost any MMU on a 16 bit processer works:
user code, user data , os code , os data , video buffer.
Ben.
PS Is the 6809 a 8 or a 16 bit CPU?
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 13:48:09 GMT