Talk:Segmented memory

The article is some kind of gibberish. Could someone who knows about the subject please fix it ?

I agree, this is total nonsense, it should be removed until someone fixes it.

I've been programming for over 30 years and have never seen such mislead information. Gads! I've added a second paragraph that I believe is accurate. Somebody aught to kill that first paragraph though, it is junk!

I killed it, and wrote something that makes sense. Note that segmentation has been around a lot longer than Intel (former 2nd) paragraph. I've referenced Multics (and even it wasn't first), and put the Intel stuff in its own section. --Wws 16:44, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Segmented memory
i guess the person who wrote the first paragraph got confused with assembers or something...

Originated in the 8080? Please!
There were many processors which had memory segmentation schemes well before the 8080. The DEC pdp-11 (early '70s) comes to mind, with segmented memory (32 byte segments in 8x8KB pages, with read/write access protection). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.163.7.98 (talk) 04:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

Merge proposal
I don't know enough about computer memory to know what's redundant and what isn't; but it seems like "segmented memory" and "segmentation (memory)" both refer to the same thing. Unlike the memory segment article, which is supposed to be x86-specific, these two articles both seem like generic terms with no difference between them to me. 128.113.149.103 18:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I added a bunch of stuff to the segmentation (memory) page, and redirected this page to that page, as that page seemed to be a bit better. Guy Harris 04:54, 13 November 2007 (UTC)