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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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6.6   REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES OF MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Because the Pentium exhibits fairly characteristic traits of modern memory management, we present a short overview of how this processor deals with memory. We also present a brief overview of how the MIPS architecture approaches memory management.

The Pentium architecture allows for 32-bit virtual addresses and 32-bit physical addresses. It uses either 4KB or 4MB page sizes when using paging. Paging and segmentation can be applied in different combinations, including unsegmented, unpaged memory; unsegmented, paged memory; segmented, unpaged memory; and segmented, paged memory.

The Pentium has two caches, L1 and L2, both utilizing a 32-byte block size. L1 is next to the processor, whereas L2 is ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043