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)[reply]

Segmented memory[edit]

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

Originated in the 8080? Please![edit]

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).[reply]

Merge proposal[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]