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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (69672)1/31/2002 4:26:23 PM
From: dale_laroyRespond to of 275872
 
>thanks for the brief explanation of PMMU.<

A little clearer explaination is possible by explaining what is not paged memory management. One type of alternative memory management is 286 style segmented memory management. Pages are some fixed power of two in size (although this is only fixed at a particular level of the table walk), while segments can be variable in size.